Steep real estate: How a few steps can cost tens of thousands on Montague Street
Montague Street’s storefronts may run up and down the same block, but they do not share the same price. On Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, rent isn’t just about location, it’s about geometry. A storefront’s price largely depends on how many stairs stand between it and the sidewalk and how much square footage sits on the other side of them. Photo: Mary Frost/Brooklyn Eagle
Happy Tuesday in New York, a city aflood with eggs.
A multistate investigation that included NY Attorney General Letitia James uncovered a multi-year conspiracy between three of the leading egg distributors in the country to jack up their prices. As part of the settlement, the Department of Justice negotiated the delivery of 53 million eggs to food banks across America, including about 5 million to New York state, and 280,000 to the city.
The delivery of 280,800 eggs was successfully transported to City Harvest Food Rescue Center in Brooklyn. “We are so grateful to receive this delivery of eggs, which are among the most requested items by our food pantry partners and the New Yorkers we serve,” said City Harvest CEO Jilly Stephens in a statement. “This delivery will help more than 20,000 New Yorkers in need put food on the table at a time when nearly 50% of working-aged households in New York City are struggling to make ends meet.”
According to James, the three egg companies secretly coordinated with each other to artificially raise the daily egg price quotes published by Urner Barry, a pricing service on which purchasers rely to inform their supply contracts. “It is unacceptable that New Yorkers paid higher prices for eggs because these companies were working together behind the scenes to raise prices,” James said in a statement. “My office has zero tolerance for big corporations breaking the law to boost their profits at the expense of working families.
The guilty companies will also pay $3.3 million in restitution to the national government. The value of the 53 million eggs is estimated to be somewhere around $10 million, given June’s average retail price.
Spare a moment for the truck driver who had to drive 280,000 eggs through the narrow Brooklyn streets to its destination. No jewel thief contorting themselves through a web of laser beams has ever had to be so careful.
Three Brooklyn neighborhoods are part of a planned expansion of 600 new curbside electric vehicle charger ports.
A plan for more convenient and affordable housing in the neighborhoods south of Prospect Park is moving forward with a public meeting scheduled for Aug. 11.
The venerable barcade at 388 Union Ave., a neighborhood mainstay since 2004, is set to close its doors in under three years.
More than half of the families joining the pilot of New York City’s 2-K program were admitted to their first choice of program.
Luigi Mangione seeks to have his state trial broadcast live, as he faces state and federal murder charges in the shooting of healthcare executive Brian Thompson.
Elderly and disabled municipal retirees will receive refunds for unlawfully charged medical copays, as part of a $53 million settlement with NYC and EmblemHealth.
A man’s body was discovered in his Bed-Stuy home by police on Sunday.
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GUATEMALA — Residents of two villages have evacuated their homes near Guatemala’s Fuego volcano following an eruption: Lava flows out of the crater of the Fuego Volcano, as seen from San Juan Alotenango, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026.
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Producing spider silk is a biological feat. Scientists are using it to develop materials for drug delivery and wound care
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” turns organic web production into a superpower. In the 2026 film, Tom Holland’s character, Peter Parker, begins producing webbing inside his body and shooting it from his wrists, rather than firing synthetic web fluid from the wrist-mounted mechanical web-shooters he used in earlier films. The switch transforms a familiar superhero technology into a biological ability and highlights the spectacular properties of real spider silk.
Humans cannot shoot spider silk from their bodies, but scientists have studied this amazing material for decades, working to adapt it for a range of technological applications.
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Happy Birthday former President Barack Obama!
On this day in 1888, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Thomas Brodie, brother of Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper, was held in $1,500 bail at the Tombs Police Court, New York, today for the larceny of a gold watch and chain valued at $145, the property of James McCullough, a tea merchant of Buffalo. Mr. McCullough was relieved of the articles while in the New York City Hall Park at an early hour this morning. The stolen property was found on Brodie.”
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