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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.