🌱 Brooklyn Heights Women's History + Downtown BK Real Estate

Good day, people of Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO! Dashiell Allen here with a brand-new Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO Daily.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and warmer. High: 55 Low: 41.

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

1. Here's the latest in real estate news from Downtown Brooklyn: One Brooklyn, the borough's tallest tower, is beginning leasing, there's an affordable apartment building on Nevins Street, and more projects in the works. (Brooklyn Bridge Parents)
2. A Brooklyn-based biking nonprofit is taking a 'tour' of the city with its new free to use secure street-side bike storage pods. It will be visiting Prospect Heights in June for one month, while the city assess whether it could feasibly be deployed in greater numbers — hopefully in Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO someday. (Brooklyn Paper)
3. Meet northern Brooklynite Cecilia Clarke, who founded a women's leadership nonprofit in her Brooklyn Heights living room, before moving on to lead the Brooklyn Community Foundation, which she left last year to study to become a social worker. (Brooklyn Reader)

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Today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

• Open mic at EastVille Comedy Club, on Atlantic Avenue (6 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Check out these five new houses on the market in The Heights and DUMBO. (Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO Patch)
• Learn about Lewis Latimer, the Black inventor invaluable in the creation of the modern lightbulb, and who inspired the public art in Albee Square. (Twitter)
• Former mayoral candidate and now head of NY State Operations Kathryn Garcia took a tour of Atlantic Yards recently with Assemblywoman Joe Anne Simon, who encouraged greater transparency in the development, and that all "public benefits are delivered." (Twitter)

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— Dashiell Allen