One Montague Place, under construction at 205 Montague St. and Cadman Plaza West in Brooklyn Heights. Rendering: Landau Properties

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THE LEDE: Good morning. Demolition is complete and shovels have broken ground at the corner of 205 Montague St. and Cadman Plaza West in Brooklyn Heights, site of a planned 51-story mixed-use luxury tower.

The Rundown

  • Naked man who jumped off Brooklyn Bridge survives, is charged: A man who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge’s north tower on Sunday afternoon has been charged with reckless endangerment and other offenses, after being fished from the water by the New York Police Department’s Harbor Unit.

  • Construction begins on 51-story luxury tower in Brooklyn Heights: According to One Montague Place’s lead broker Greg Williamson of Douglas Elliman, the building will feature 46 ultra-luxury condo residences and 90 rentals, with “expansive private and shared outdoor spaces.” 

  • Floating pool prototype nearly finished in Red Hook: The pool will be deployed at Pier 35 off the Lower East Side and will use filtered river water.

  • Caputo’s owner back with Park Slope bagel shop: James Caputo cited burnout as one of his reasons for shuttering the 124-year-old beloved Carroll Gardens bakery in April after 25 years of ownership. But now, he’s opening a new bagel spot this fall in Park Slope

  • Police use drones to spot sharks in Rockaways, Coney Island: Over the July Fourth weekend, the team helped to find seven of 16 sharks spotted swimming off of Rockaway Beach.

  • Rev. Erika Meyer mourned and remembered for her pastoral gifts: The neighborhood mourns the Rev. Erika Meyer, associate rector for Pastoral Care and Community Life at Grace Church in Brooklyn Heights, who died on July 14 after a battle with cancer.

  • Inside the NYC courtroom where detained children face deportation without attorneys: Around 20,000 unaccompanied minors nationwide are set to lose legal services when the federal government ends a contract Friday. One NYC immigration court shows us what that will look like. (The City Reporter)

  • Our world in photos: Goddesses, explosions, celebrities and more.

Our World in Photos

INDIA — An artist dressed as Hindu goddess Mahakali performs during a procession marking Bonalu. Photo: Mahesh Kumar A./AP

More Brooklyn News

  • "Heroic heights: Superhero window washers surprise young patients at Maimonides" (Brooklyn Paper)

  • "Brooklyn Unscripted: Lisa Price" (BKReader)

  • "The Mamdani Administration Wants to Build Housing Here. And Here. And Here." (City Limits)

Staff Picks

  • READ: "How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network into a Tool for Stalking" (The Washington Post)

  • EAT: A Bensonhurst restaurant has combined a burger and a pizza into one crazy, but delicious, hybrid creation. (Yahoo) 

  • CARTOON: A predatory Senate hearing. (Brooklyn Eagle)

  • LIVE: "NYC’s top deals: Brooklyn school trades for $16M" (The Real Deal)

The Wrap

⌛ ON THIS DAY
In 1931, the Eagle reported, "Mickey Mouse will be seen in person on the stage of the Fox Brooklyn Theater beginning Friday, when he will appear in a Fanchon and Marco stage show called ‘Mickey Mouse Idea.’" Click here to see what else happened on this day in history. 

📔 IMPRINT
Canadian singer-songwriter Tate McRae sits on a table for Variety. 

👑 ROYAL WATCH
"Harry and Meghan blast Elon Musk, Big Tech over 'predatory' AI features" (USA Today)

🏀 SPORTS
Scholastic Roundup: He never played basketball, but Shelly Schneider became a NYC legend (Brooklyn Eagle)

  • Former President Barack Obama

  • 1969 Mets World Series hero Cleon Jones

  • Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

  • Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

  • “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig


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