🌱 Boat Restaurant Being Renovated + Kings County Medical Society

Hello, people of Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO! It's me again, Dashiell Allen, your host of the Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO Daily. Welcome to the first day of April!

First, today's weather:

A shower; breezy and cooler. High: 58 Low: 38.

Here are the top three stories today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

1. Pilot, the upscale restaurant boat normally docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park, is currently undergoing repairs in Mystic, Connecticut. The 98-year-old ship, and its twin in Tribeca, known as schooners, have storied histories having once been considered the fastest boats in the world as they circumnavigated the globe. (theday.com)
2. The oldest scientific organization in Brooklyn, the Kings County Medical Society, celebrated its bicentennial anniversary on Wednesday. The organization first opened its doors in Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights in 1822. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
3. With a tax break for real estate developers called 421a set to expire, many progressive politicians–like Lincoln Restler and Brad Lander–want it to be eliminated completely, rather than being replaced by a similar program, which the Governor and Mayor have put their support behind. In both cases, the programs provide only a small percentage of affordable housing with a hefty price tag, and millions in lost revenue for the city and state. (The New York Times)

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Today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

• Interactive art exhibition at Brooklyn Bridge Park invites visitors to "restitch the United States" (5:30 p.m.)
• Play "Dinner At Eight," opens at The Heights Players, 26 Willow Place (8 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Check out this delicious cookie store on Atlantic Avenue. (Facebook)
• In a joint statement, Councilman Lincoln Restler, Nydia Velazquez, and other local politicians, denounced Mayor Adams for not giving them warning before clearing homeless encampments under the BQE in Williamsburg. (Twitter)
• Smith Street between Atlantic Avenue and State Street will be closed at least through today in relation to jail dismantlement work, per Lincoln Restler. (Twitter)

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