08/11/2026
Brooklyn’s biggest stories of the week: six people died in a Sunset Park house fire; Democrats took Congress, putting Brooklyn’s Hakeem Jeffries in line to become Speaker; 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge sells for $202 million; flu cases rose; GreenWood Cemetry Day of the Dead celebration was packed; a 27-story Bjarke Ingels tower got under way in Gowanus; and Ibérico opened in Fort Greene. https://www.gensa.family/new-york-city/news/the-week-in-brooklyn-november-1-7-2026-community-news