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New York's Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public, completing a 13-year construction effort that Emily Warren Roebling steered to completion after her husband was incapacitated by decompression sickness.

Japan's tonkotsu chain opens its first restaurant in the United States, on Johnson Avenue in Bushwick, with the counter divided into one-person "flavour concentration booths". You order by marking a paper form and eat behind a partition without speaking to anyone.

The Brooklyn Tower at 9 DeKalb Avenue, the borough's first supertall skyscraper, received its certificate of occupancy, issued as an extension of its temporary permit, years after residents began moving in.

Chef Ned Baldwin, a fisherman's son, opens an airy seafood restaurant in Brooklyn.

Etsy is laying off about 220 employees, roughly 12% of its workforce, mostly in product and engineering, leaving about 1,600 people.

NVIDIA expects to complete its roughly $11.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face in the first half of 2027, once regulators approve the deal.

New York's plan to rebuild the crumbling triple-cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway now targets a 2030 construction start after yet another mayoral reset.

The MTA is pushing ahead on a new light rail line linking Brooklyn and Queens via a freight corridor that has never had passenger subway service.