🌱 Upgrades At Roosevelt Houses + New Street Name For Ghana

Up and at 'em, Bed-Stuy! It's Wednesday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on today in Bed-Stuy.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and mild. High: 64 Low: 45.

Here are the top stories in Bed-Stuy today:

1. Upgrades At Bed-Stuy's Roosevelt Houses To Help With Flooding (Bed-Stuy Patch)
2. Beyond the Return: Borough of Brooklyn names street after Ghana (GhanaWeb)
3. A Grubhub Guide to Crown Heights and Prospect Heights Eating (Gothamist)
4. New York City rats: Where are the most sightings happening? (WABC-TV)
5. N.Y.C. Public Schools Open Vaccination Sites for 5- to 11-year-olds (The New York Times)

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Today in Bed-Stuy:

• Collaborative Planning [Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School] [Public calendar] (12:00 AM)
• Parent Teacher Conferences Evening - Williamsburg Hs-Art-Tech (12:00 AM)
• Parent Teacher Conferences [Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School] [Public calendar] (12:00 AM)
• Evening DLCs - Brooklyn Latin School (The) (12:00 AM)
• Parent Teacher Conference - Remote Only (5:00 PM)
• Virtual Parent Teacher Conferences - Williamsburg Hs-Art-Tech (5:00 PM)
• SLT Meeting - Juan Morel Campos Secondary School (5:00 PM)
• Fortune Connect: Discovering Wealth with Robert Fortune (5:00 PM)
• Virtual Parent Teacher Conferences [Brooklyn Collegiate - A College Board School] [Public calendar] (6:00 PM)
• Historic Homeownership Tax Credit Program (6:30 PM)

Bed-Stuy Patch Notebook

• Brooklyn Museum: "Our beloved Salsa Parties are back! Hosted by @balmirdance, these evenings offers a salsa class led by dance professionals, live music, and performances by Brooklyn’s best Latin dance teams. RSVP via link in bio to celebrate the art of s..." (Instagram)
• Weeksville Heritage Center: "Join us on November 13 from 12-5pm as we celebrate #ChildrensBookWeek, presented in partnership with Center for Book Arts and House of Speakeasy's Artmobile. Stop by for three book readings: At 1pm, Breanna McDaniel reads Hands Up! which..." (Facebook)
• FAB Fulton: "Just announced! Save the date (Wednesday, December 8th) for ARKAI: Live in Concert at the Brooklyn Music School! All proceeds will benefit performing arts programming at BMS. Tickets will go on sale soon, so stay tuned!" (Facebook)
• The Laundromat Project: "Artists-in-Residence Ogemdi Ude and Rochelle Jamila Wilbun have created a series of free wellness resources for Black postpartum people, launched today at www.afropeach.com. Register to join us for #GatherCreate this Wednesday to learn a..." (Facebook)

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— Anna Quinn

About me: Hello readers! My name is Anna Quinn and I cover all things Park Slope, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and Prospect Heights for Patch. I've also covered the west side of Manhattan and 14 other Brooklyn neighborhoods during my time as a Patch reporter. I'm a former Hearst Connecticut reporter, a Loyola Maryland grad and a general news junkie. Tell me your stories at anna.quinn@patch.com and follow @AnnaQuinnPatch on Twitter to read mine.

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