Doc Bushong: Brooklyn’s baseball-playing dentist: After his retirement from professional baseball in 1890, "Doc" Bushong turned to the full-time practice of dentistry, first in Hoboken, New Jersey, and then in Brooklyn, where he died in 1908.

Health Department report: Congestion pricing has improved NY’s air quality: Using data starting one full year before tolling began and continuing one year after, researchers were able to distinguish the effects of congestion pricing from other factors that influence air quality, such as weather and wildfire smoke.

Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump’s push to toss out $5M verdict in E. Jean Carroll case: The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.

Take a summer tour of Brooklyn’s amazing murals: Brooklyn is an “open-air gallery,” and summer is a great time to tour the borough’s famous murals, which appear on walls from Williamsburg and Bushwick to Brownsville, Sunset Park and Coney Island, according to Visit Brooklyn.

1-day art exhibition “PIGEONS!” to take place Saturday: Brooklyn Heights-based artist David Fobair will be exhibiting two of his recurring pigeon characters, Harry and Harrietta.

Grandma’s Love grows its efforts to help child literacy: A Bay Ridge-based nonprofit organization continues to evolve and expand efforts to help children. Its founder, Theresa Monforte-Caraballo, created the community nonprofit Grandma’s Love to focus on child hunger and later literacy.

New council push to save traditional Medicare for retirees: The refreshed proposal makes no direct reference to Medicare Advantage, the health program reviled by retirees who claim it offers inferior care. But it tees up a potential battle between the retirees, their unions and the Mamdani administration. (The City Reporter)

Our world in photos: Kids, soldiers, animals and more.

"Meet the new kingmaker who could lead the Brooklyn Democratic Party" (City & State New York)

"‘By community, for community’: Brooklyn hubs carve out spaces of their own" (Brooklyn Paper)

"Trinidad and Tobago Independence Day Parade is coming to Brooklyn for the first time" (The Grio)

READ: "G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost" (The New Yorker)

EAT: Here are 10 restaurants where Kareem Rahma eats at in "Keep The Meter Running," including a Russian bathhouse in Brooklyn. (The Infatuation)

CARTOON: Relaxing on the beach? (The New Yorker)

LIVE: "Housing Notes: Manhattan & Brooklyn rental prices go up and to the right" (The Real Deal)

“Riverdale” star Madelaine Petsch

Former N.Y. Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey

“Saturday Night Live” star Andy Samberg

Comedian Elayne Boosler

“Man Walks Into a Room” author and Brooklyn resident Nicole Krauss

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