🌱 Brooklyn Heights Murder Mystery + 'Cannabist' Store Coming

Happy Friday, people of Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO! Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.

First, today's weather:

Clearing, windy and cooler. High: 58 Low: 28.

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

1. Authorities are investigating what appears to be the mysterious murder of a 63-year-old Brooklyn Heights woman and her grandson early last year. The two died three months apart, but in both cases autopsies revealed the cause of death to be acute thallium poisoning, thallium being a deadly metal. (AMNY)
2. Tribeca Pediatrics, the successful local children's medical provider, is expanding to Red Hook in a big way - opening an architecturally complex building that will host not a doctor's office, but an events space. Tribeca Pediatrics occupies a location in DUMBO. (Brownstoner)
3. There's a new cannabis store coming to Brooklyn Heights, called "Cannabist." The store is a new "retail experience" venture for Columbia Care, an "industry-leading cannabis dispensary" according to their website. (Benzinga)

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Today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

• Puppet Lab festival at St. Ann's Warehouse (7:30 p.m.)
• Candlelight concert "From Bach to The Beatles" at St. Ann & Trinity Church (6:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Brooklyn Bridge Parents will be hosting their annual indoors block party at CityPoint on March 5th. (Brooklyn Bridge Parents)
• Here's five houses (and apartments) that recently went on the market to buy in Brooklyn Heights. (Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO Patch)
• Students at Brooklyn Heights' PS8 read a total of 285,016 minutes in the first two weeks of their annual 'readathon.' (Facebook)
• The Downtown RX Pharma Corp opened recently at 180 Atlantic Avenue, between Court and Clinton, and they are hiring. (Facebook)
• Join your local representatives (Lincoln Restler, Nydia Velazquez, Jabari Brisport, and Jo Anne Simon) for a Black History Month walking tour next Saturday. (Twitter)

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