🌱 Vegan Spot Named Among NYC's Best + Uber Driver Attacked

Morning, Bed-Stuy! Here's everything you need to know to get this Saturday started off right.

First, today's weather:

Clouds and breaks of sun. High: 60 Low: 48.

Here are the top stories today in Bed-Stuy:

1. What Brooklyn voters need to know ahead of the Nov. 2 general election • Brooklyn Paper (Brooklyn Paper)
2. Bed-Stuy Man Indicted In Anti-Gay Attack At Brooklyn Bodega: DA (Bed-Stuy Patch)
3. Bed-Stuy Spot Named One Of NYC's Best Vegan, Vegetarian Eateries (Bed-Stuy Patch)
4. Uber Driver Sent To Hospital After Crash-Turned-Robbery In BK: PD (Bed-Stuy Patch)
5. Permits Filed for 17-Story Tower at 1065 Atlantic Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn (New York YIMBY)
6. Bed-Stuy vigil remembers victims of violence on NYC Go Purple Day (News 12 Bronx)
7. Laundromat Project “Pays it Forward” With $50K Award to Five POC-Led Organizations (Hyperallergic)

Today in Bed-Stuy:

• No Cost Mammogram and Clinical Breast Exam (9:00 AM)
• Responding to Teens and Young Adults in Violent Relationships (4:00 PM)
• SOULGENTZ BASKETBALL - Boys Ages 12-16 (1:00 PM)
• HIP-HOP MAJORETTE DANCE (Ages 12-16) (1:30 PM)
• COMPETITIVE STEP TEAM (Girls Ages 12 to 16) (4:30 PM)

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