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1. Brooklyn Judges Parking Lot Fight Continues After Secured Funding (patch.com) — A long-running fight over judges’ parking on Columbus Park land in Downtown Brooklyn is heating up as Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Council Member Lincoln Restler push a $21 million first phase of an $80 million redesign. Their plan would replace the decades-old parking lot near Kings County Supreme Court with new green space, a skate park, dog run, playground, and other public amenities, but only if judges agree to vacate the site and security concerns are resolved.
2. Downtown Brooklyn Tower Secures 31-Year Lease (patch.com) — Downtown Brooklyn is getting a major boost as Brooklyn Defender Services signs a 31-year lease to consolidate its headquarters at The Wheeler on Fulton Street. The move, alongside St. Francis College and a planned Brooklyn Prospect high school campus, means the entire building is now fully leased to nonprofit and educational tenants, strengthening local legal and educational services.
3. DCAS, Brooklyn Museum, NYPA Announce $48 Million Deep Energy Retrofit Project, Ensuring a More Susta (nyc.gov) — Brooklyn Museum is getting a $48 million energy retrofit that will add solar panels, modernize heating and cooling, and cut emissions by the equivalent of 725 cars. Work, funded by DCAS and delivered with NYPA, should finish by mid-2027 and improve comfort, reliability, and sustainability for visitors and staff. The project also upgrades parking with a solar carport between the museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
4. Restler, developers clash over Monitor point proposal at City Council hearing • Brooklyn Paper (brooklynpaper.com) — A major rezoning fight over the proposed Monitor Point towers could reshape the Brooklyn waterfront near Bushwick Inlet Park, adding hundreds of affordable units and new open space. Council Member Lincoln Restler is pressing developers and the MTA for deeper affordability and firm commitments to finally complete long-promised parkland before a key City Council vote on June 25.
5. State awards $82M for arts and culture projects (brooklyneagle.com) — Brooklyn arts groups are getting nearly $4 million in new state capital funding, with most going to a planned Brownsville Arts Center on Rockaway Avenue. Smaller grants will upgrade spaces and equipment at organizations like Brooklyn Arts Exchange, MoCADA, Red Hook Art Project, Bushwick Starr, Smack Mellon, Theater Mitu, and Oye Group, boosting accessibility, safety, and creative capacity across the borough.
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