{"id":233508,"date":"2026-05-16T03:34:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233508\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:34:53","slug":"the-week-in-brooklyn-may-11-17-2026-brooklyn-bridge-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233508\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Brooklyn: May 11\u201317, 2026 | Brooklyn Bridge Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn\u2019s biggest stories of the week: Mayor Mamdani brings World Cup energy to NYC schoolyards with Soccer Streets; Council Member Restler pushes for mitigation on Boerum Hill jail construction; Pre-K offers land while BoCoCa families come up short; Domino Park, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and Brooklyn Bridge Park drop their summer 2026 lineups; Bathhouse opens on Atlantic Avenue, and the Williamsburg Soccer Club\u2019s new 33 Nassau home is now open; the Sunset Park Greenway opens, Bushwick Inlet Park\u2019s Greenpoint beach finally debuts, and a 14-story tower is coming to the Walgreens corner in Brooklyn Heights; the 2\/3\/4\/5 schedule shifts Monday; the DA indicts fifteen alleged Coney Island gang members tied to sixteen shootings; and DUMBO\u2019s design-services density gets the NYT treatment. Read on for the latest!<\/p>\n

City Hall
\nSoccer Streets Brings the World Cup to NYC Schoolyards<\/p>\n

Mayor Mamdani launched \u201cSoccer Streets\u201d Monday May 11 \u2014 a traveling series of free, car-free street takeovers at 50 NYC public schools, running through the last day of school June 26. Pickup matches, age-appropriate drills, and flag-and-mural art stations across the five boroughs, presented in partnership with NYC Public Schools, the DOT, Street Lab, and Chobani. Built to bring World Cup energy to the neighborhoods before the July knockout rounds kick in.<\/p>\n

Boerum Hill Jail Construction: Restler Pushes for Mitigation<\/p>\n

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Council Member Lincoln Restler\u2019s office circulated an update this week on the federal jail rising next door to Boerum Hill homes: building-shaking vibrations, loud noise, traffic congestion, and an inadequately contained site. Restler is pressing the DDC, DOB, DEP, and DOT on mitigations, with monthly community meetings ongoing. Construction wraps in 2029, increasingly internal to the building as the project proceeds \u2014 and the ground floor\u2019s 30,000 sq ft community-facility space will solicit neighborhood feedback on uses soon. Reach the office at di********@*********yc.gov.<\/p>\n

Schools
\nPre-K Offers Land, but BoCoCa Comes Up Short<\/p>\n

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Pre-K results for fall 2026 placements landed in MySchools on Tuesday May 12 \u2014 but for many BoCoCa-area families, the offers came nowhere close to home. NY1 reported this week that a fully built Pre-K site at 42 President Street \/ 129 Van Brunt sits empty despite millions spent, with 135 seats locked away from the neighborhood. Parents have been petitioning the City<\/a> to open the doors since March. 3-K offers follow Tuesday May 19. NYC Public Schools calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Events & Entertainment
\nThree Parks Roll Out Their Summer 2026 Lineups<\/p>\n

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Three Brooklyn waterfront parks unveiled their free summer slates this week. Domino Park returns Sugar Sugar! to Williamsburg Wednesdays and Thursdays June 3\u201325, plus Salsa by the Water, Movies in the Square, and family programming through September. The Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park unveiled \u201cSummer at the Terminal\u201d \u2014 Ferry Food Fest, Rooftop Films, Community Markets, Hispanic Heritage Festival, and D\u00eda de los Muertos, May through October. And Brooklyn Bridge Park\u2019s 2026 family calendar kicks off Saturday May 16 with the Kite Festival, followed by Photoville May 16\u201330 and Movies With A View on Thursdays in July and August. See our full Brooklyn Bridge Park guide<\/a>, Domino Park\u2019s calendar<\/a>, and the BAT lineup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bathhouse Opens at 540 Atlantic Avenue<\/p>\n

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The Williamsburg-born spa brand cuts the ribbon on its newest location this weekend at 540 Atlantic Avenue \u2014 saunas, hot tubs, cold plunges, and the rest of the wellness slate. Bookings now open.<\/p>\n

Williamsburg Soccer Club\u2019s New 33 Nassau Home Is Now Open<\/p>\n

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The Williamsburg Soccer Club\u2019s permanent indoor facility at 33 Nassau Avenue \u2014 the former Play Lab space \u2014 is now hosting weekly classes for ages 18 months through 10 years, a Wednesday girls-only session, Sunday morning clinics, after-school programs, camps, field rentals, and birthday parties. Schedule and registration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Real Estate & Development
\nSunset Park Greenway Officially Opens<\/p>\n

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The Sunset Park stretch of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway cut its ribbon Monday May 12 \u2014 a continuous, family-friendly path along Third Avenue from Hamilton Avenue to 29th Street, knitting protected space for walking, cycling, and stroller traffic into a neighborhood that\u2019s been waiting on it. A real public-space win.<\/p>\n

Bushwick Inlet Park\u2019s Long-Awaited Greenpoint Beach Is Open<\/p>\n

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The Motiva parcel of Bushwick Inlet Park is officially open to the public \u2014 a 1.8-acre slice the City bought from the fossil-fuel company in 2014, with a small beach and kayak launch near Franklin Street and North 15th, a winding walking path, and a forthcoming wildflower meadow. The capstone on a two-decade community fight for the North Brooklyn waterfront.<\/p>\n

14-Story Tower Coming to the Walgreens Corner, Brooklyn Heights<\/p>\n

Rogers Equities paid $30 million this week for the Walgreens building at 120 Court Street and filed plans for a 14-story, 75-unit residential tower with ground-floor retail. The Walgreens itself shutters June 4; the lease wraps in August; demolition follows. Commercial Observer has the details<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two Trees Pushes the Final Domino Sugar Refinery Tower Higher<\/p>\n

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Construction on the last building in Two Trees\u2019 decades-long Domino campus reached the seventh floor this week. The 52-story, 591-foot tower at 280 Kent Avenue will hold roughly 1,350 apartments \u2014 two glass-curtain-walled towers with wavy wrap-around balconies rising from a three-story podium. The tallest of the bunch on the Williamsburg waterfront. Expected delivery: about three years out.<\/p>\n

28-Story Tower Rising at 6208 8th Avenue, Sunset Park<\/p>\n

Crews finished the multistory podium and started the reinforced-concrete superstructure on a 28-story, 497-unit mixed-use tower at 6208 Eighth Avenue between 61st and 64th \u2014 100,000 sq ft of ground-floor retail, designed by Raymond Chan Architect, developed by Watermark Capital and Rubin Equities. YIMBY has the renderings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bed-Stuy in Line for One of Brooklyn\u2019s Biggest Project Filings in Years<\/p>\n

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L+M Development is advancing a proposed 12-building mixed-use project across a Bed-Stuy footprint \u2014 among the largest Brooklyn proposals in recent memory. Scale and timeline still preliminary, but the neighborhood implications are not.<\/p>\n

Transit
\nNumber-Line Schedule Shift Hits Monday May 18<\/p>\n

The 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines see earlier and later rush trips starting Monday May 18 \u2014 quiet but real for families on school-run and commute timing through the Eastern Parkway corridor.<\/p>\n

Police Blotter
\nConey Island Gang Takedown: 15 Charged Across 16 Shootings<\/p>\n

Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced a 113-count indictment Monday May 11 against 15 alleged members of two 59 Brim Bloods subsets \u2014 Fly Ooter Gang and Koney Sides \u2014 based in Coney Island. Charges cover 16 shootings tied to seven victims. The investigation began January 2024. DA release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crown Heights Deli Killing: Father and Son Charged with Murder<\/p>\n

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NYPD arrested an 18-year-old and his 47-year-old father \u2014 both named Devon Johnson \u2014 in connection with the death of 60-year-old Derrick Watson, attacked at the bodega at 1380 Eastern Parkway around 12:30 AM in late April. Watson died May 4 of a traumatic brain injury. Both pleaded not guilty May 12 and are held without bail on murder, robbery, and manslaughter charges.<\/p>\n

Borough Park: Three Wanted in Violent Robbery Pattern<\/p>\n

NYPD released fresh images Thursday May 14 of three men sought in a string of violent robberies across Borough Park. A separate Thursday robbery in the same neighborhood saw a man relieved of roughly $3,000 in property; investigators are looking at whether the cases connect. Suspects remain at large.<\/p>\n

Bed-Stuy: Bainbridge Street Stabbing<\/p>\n

A man was found Friday May 11 with multiple stab wounds inside a Bainbridge Street apartment and pronounced dead at the hospital. A man has been charged with murder. Domestic incident.<\/p>\n

Crown Heights: 15-to-Life for Lincoln Terrace Park Killing<\/p>\n

A Brooklyn man was sentenced May 12 to 15 years to life for the 2020 broad-daylight shooting of Christopher Ross, a 53-year-old father of two struck by a bullet meant for someone else in Lincoln Terrace Park. DA release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn Color
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\nDUMBO\u2019s Architects and Designers Get the NYT Treatment<\/p>\n

The New York Times stopped by DUMBO this week to chronicle the neighborhood\u2019s outsized concentration of architects, designers, and creative-services firms \u2014 and to suggest, gently, that if you need to hire one, that\u2019s where to look. A neighborhood spotlight more than hard news, but a fair read on what DUMBO has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn\u2019s biggest stories of the week: Mayor Mamdani brings World Cup energy to NYC schoolyards with Soccer Streets;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-233508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}