Pins matching place:Brooklyn

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.

Doris Mattus opened the first Häagen-Dazs scoop shop at 120 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights in 1976, serving the three original flavours of vanilla, chocolate and coffee; the shop's own sign gives 15 November 1976.

A Williamsburg wine bar with a changing seasonal kitchen menu.

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.

DataBank identifies MSP3 at 8111 Oxbow Creek N in Brooklyn Park, with 9 MW critical IT load and 82,231 IT square feet. The operator says the Brooklyn Park campus opened in 2021; this is not a 28 MW Maple Plain expansion.

218 affordable apartments in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, spanning studios through three-bedrooms. Opening announcement identifies 30%–80% AMI households and 42 supportive homes. Grand opening celebrated June 10, 2022.

Equinor's 810 MW Empire Wind 1, the first offshore wind farm to connect to New York City's grid, began construction with the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal port build on 10 June 2024; first power is planned for late 2026 and full commissioning for 2027.

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.

Backing out from Pier 17 with 277 people aboard, the Mexican Navy training ship drifted astern into the Brooklyn Bridge, breaking the tops of all three masts; two cadets were killed and at least 19 people injured.

Geese's fourth album Getting Killed arrived on 26 September 2025 to near-universal acclaim, with a Metacritic score of 89 and Pitchfork's Best New Music tag. Kalshi priced the New York band at about 67 cents to be a 2027 Best New Artist nominee on 10 October 2026.

Rent the Runway closed a recapitalization that significantly cut its debt load, entering an amended credit agreement with lenders CHS Capital and others and booking a $96.3 million gain on the troubled-debt restructuring.

1.85 inches of rain fell in Central Park, breaking a daily record from 1917, as flash floods swamped streets and subway stations; two men died in flooded basements in Crown Heights and Washington Heights.

Seaside amusement park beside the Cyclone roller coaster, the boardwalk and the beach. Rides and games run on a published calendar through the warm months.

An open-air market of dozens of independent food vendors beside the East River with a skyline backdrop. Run weekly in the warm months.

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

Microsoft’s June 2026 notice confirms ongoing operations and customer service loads at Cawley Road during scheduled power maintenance on June 24–25. This milestone is not an opening date.

Etsy closed the sale of resale marketplace Depop to eBay for about $1.4 billion in cash, including purchase-price adjustments and interest, five months after the deal was announced.

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

Hermès opened a roughly 5,000-square-foot boutique at 111 North 6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, its 44th store in the United States, designed by the Paris agency RDAI in a converted brick building.

Sneaker Con called off its outdoor New York show at Maimonides Park, set for 26-27 September, as a nor'easter bore down, promising full refunds and a new date to come.

A seasonal neighborhood dining room influenced by New Orleans and European bistros.

Brooklyn Academy of Music's autumn season of new dance, theater and music from artists around the world. The 2026 lineup includes an anniversary concert of Einstein on the Beach.

The new Brownsville residence provides 141 affordable apartments for low-income seniors with supportive services and project-based NYCHA vouchers. Ribbon cutting celebrated October 8, 2026.

An autumn day of live music, family activities, pumpkin decorating and a cider and beer garden among the changing leaves.

A planned French neighborhood restaurant from two former Carbone colleagues.

The garden's collection of flowering cherry trees blooms each spring and draws photographers and picnickers. Bloom timing shifts with the weather, so check the garden's tracker before visiting.

Minor-league baseball a block from the Coney Island boardwalk, with fireworks nights and ocean breezes. A cheap, casual night out.

Brooklyn's famous oceanfront with a wide beach, the Riegelmann Boardwalk and the Wonder Wheel. Easy subway ride from Manhattan.

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

Free outdoor movie nights on the lawn facing the Manhattan skyline. Lawn opens at 6 p.m. and films start at sundown, seating first come, first served.

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.