Happy Birthday to Rube Walker of the Brooklyn Dodgers: Rube Walker revolutionized baseball by implementing a five-man pitching rotation. Before then, the gospel had been a four-man rotation.

Ex-Brooklyn judge accused of swindling real estate investors out of millions of dollars: Edward Harold King, who left the bench at the end of last year, and Yechiel “Sam” Sprei, a politically connected real estate developer, were arrested by the FBI on wire fraud conspiracy charges after federal prosecutors say they duped a pair of investors into forking over $6.5 million for a bogus property bid and then failed to return all but a fraction of the money.

BYC gala supports Brooklyn storytellers, artists impacted by the Red Hook fire: Under the theme of “Brooklyn Stories,” the honorees were Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad, award-winning author Jennifer Egan, recording artist Cecile McLoran Salvant, Rep. Nydia Velazquez and Brooklyn Eagle Publisher Dozier Hasty.

Neo-Nazi leader gets 15 years for recruiting violent attacks, including a Santa poison plot: The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for trying to recruit others to commit violent attacks against Jews and racial minorities, including one plot that would have involved dressing as Santa Claus to hand out poisoned candy to children.

Man who crashed car into Chabad Headquarters pleads guilty: Dan Sohail of New Jersey pleaded guilty to damaging religious property. The proceeding was held before U.S. District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano. When sentenced, Sohail faces imprisonment and restitution.

Brooklyn Bar Association celebrates ‘one of the finest judges,’ Hon. Theodore T. Jones: The event is named after the late justice Theodore T. Jones, a member of the Brooklyn Bar Association for more than 25 years, a Brooklyn native and St. John’s University School of Law alumnus.

To evict good cause tenants, landlords now claim ‘demolition.’ Is it valid?: Tenant protections enacted in 2024 left a big opening for property owners to not renew leases. But do apartment renovations count as demolition? (THE CITY)

Our world in photos: Politicians, photographers, princesses and more.

"Brooklyn Army Terminal launches summer lineup of free waterfront events" (Brooklyn Paper)

"The Improv Returns To New York City For First Time In 30 Years With New Brooklyn Comedy Club" (Deadline)

"The Other Art Fair Returns to Brooklyn" (Red Hook Star-Revue)

READ: "Meet the Sad Wives of AI: Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry." (WIRED)

EAT: Here are the 14 best dishes food journalists ate last month in New York City, including six in Brooklyn. (The Infatuation)

CARTOON: Not quite a ballroom. (Brooklyn Eagle)

LIVE: "A Brooklyn Heights One-Bedroom With a Leafy Terrace for $999,000" (Curbed)

Painter and sculptor Jasper Johns

Basketball Hall of Famer and former N.Y. Knicks coach Don Nelson

Spectrum News 1 anchor Giselle Fernandez

“The Sopranos” star Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Model Stella Maxwell

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