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Hello Brooklyn! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Reformers challenge Brooklyn party boss as leadership vote looms
  • How $6.2 million in new funding will reshape Brooklyn community care
  • How a Brooklyn Dollar Tree dispute left three teen girls wounded

Also on today's calendar: Comedy Studio of Harvard Sq comes to the Eastville Comedy Club and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Times of sun and clouds, with a high of 80 and low of 70 degrees.
  • Saturday: Humid with periods of rain, temps: high: 76, low: 71.
  • Sunday: A shower and t-storm; humid, with a high of 84 and low of 69 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. What Brooklyn Democrats' Power Fight Could Mean (patch.com) — Brooklyn Democrats are locked in a power struggle over who will control the borough's party machinery, after reform-backed district leaders appeared to win a majority of executive committee seats in June. Current party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, who represents Flatbush, Little Haiti and South Midwood, is pushing to expand the voting body beyond 42 district leaders, a move reformers say could dilute their new influence before a leadership vote this fall.
   

2. Gov. Hochul Announces $6.2 Million for Healthcare, Community Facility Improvements in Brooklyn (bkreader.com) — State leaders have committed $6.2 million to upgrade healthcare and community facilities serving Brooklyn residents, including StartCare and NYCHA's Breukelen Houses Community Center. Announced during a back-to-school event in Canarsie Park, the funding will expand primary care and behavioral health services and modernize community space for East New York and Canarsie families.
   

3. Woman stabs two teen girls, slashes third in Brooklyn Dollar Tree (dailynews.com) — Three teenage girls were stabbed or slashed during an argument inside a Dollar Tree on Van Siclen Ave. in East New York, Brooklyn, with two hospitalized in stable condition. Police arrested 44-year-old Violar Bouyer nearby and charged her with assault and weapon possession after she allegedly believed the teens planned to rob her.
   

4. Man gunned down in Bronx as girlfriend watched was innocent bystander: sources (nydailynews.com) — A Brooklyn man visiting his girlfriend in a Bronx homeless shelter was fatally shot in the head outside the building, with law enforcement sources now saying he was an innocent bystander. The 39-year-old, who had come from Brooklyn just to pick her up, died at the scene, and an 18-year-old suspect has been charged with murder and weapon possession.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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