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• Cops release surveillance images of gunmen wanted for fatally shooting Brooklyn teen

  24-08-2026 23:00 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  Police have released surveillance images of two men wanted for fatally shooting a 17-year-old boy as he hung out in a New Lots restaurant last week.The newly released footage appears to show two young people dressed in hoodies and wearing face masks walking along a sidewalk. Police say they believe these two individuals stood outside of Hakim’s Restaurant, located at 514 New Lots Avenue, and opened fire into the establishment at around 8:23 p.m. on Aug. 19.Police sources say the gunme
  
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• Back from a ‘very restorative’ vacation, Mamdani launches effort to renew NYC’s parks

  24-08-2026 21:15 via amny.com
  
  Fresh off a week away upstate that he described as “very restorative,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani returned Monday with a plan to give New York City’s parks a little renewal of their own.City Hall launched the Parks Department’s new “Renew Crew,” a 24-person team of painters, electricians, plumbers and other trade specialists focused on making faster repairs at playgrounds, recreation centers and sports courts across the five boroughs.The city is investing $2.3 milli
  
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• SEE IT: Battle of Brooklyn comes alive with reenactment in Prospect Park

  24-08-2026 20:08 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  The celebrations honoring America’s 250th anniversary culminated in the re-enactment of the historic Battle of Brooklyn on Aug. 22, when more than more than 300 reenactors dressed in period costumes and armed with reproduction firearms retraced the first and largest battle of the American War for Independence when the British Crown Forces, Hessian troops, and Loyalist forces attacked General George Washington’s Continental Army on the fields of what later would become Prospect Park o
  
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• Bushwick housing lotto offers affordable co-ops to first-time buyers

  24-08-2026 19:03 via brooklynpaper.com
  
  A rare affordable housing lottery has opened for the sale of 16 one-, two-, and three-bedroom co-op apartments in two new Bushwick buildings, giving buyers the chance to become first-time homeowners. Households must be between one and seven people with incomes between $88,666 to $231,440 a year.The lottery is for apartments in two buildings that are part of a four-building development dubbed South Bushwick Neighborhood Homes. The four buildings are not clustered together but are scatte
  
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• Mamdani administration set to pitch multi-billion-dollar plan to fix BQE’s crumbling cantilever

  24-08-2026 10:00 via amny.com
  
  Could Zohran Mamdani be the mayor who finally manages to fix the beleaguered Brooklyn-Queens Expressway's (BQE) triple cantilever on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront?Mamdani's Department of Transportation (DOT) is set to unveil on Monday a $3.5 to $4 billion plan to rehabilitate the part of the Robert Moses-era highway that runs through Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, and Downtown Brooklyn between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street — known as BQE Central. That section of the highway contains the tri
  
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• Mamdani administration pitches multi-billion-dollar plan to fix BQE’s crumbling cantilever

  24-08-2026 10:00 via amny.com
  
  Could Zohran Mamdani be the mayor who finally manages to fix the beleaguered Brooklyn-Queens Expressway's (BQE) triple cantilever on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront?Mamdani's Department of Transportation (DOT) unveiled on Monday a $3.5 to $4 billion plan to rehabilitate the part of the Robert Moses-era highway that runs through Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, and Downtown Brooklyn between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street — known as BQE Central. That section of the highway contains the triple cant
  
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