🌱 Cadman Plaza Veterans Memorial + Thanksgiving Travel Plans

Rise and shine, Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO! Let's get you started this Saturday with everything you need to know going on today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO.

First, today's weather:

Brief afternoon showers. High: 60 Low: 39.

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

1. The Veterans Day memorial service in Cadman Plaza Park commemorates the over 300,000 Brooklynites who served in World War II, on the plaza of the Brooklyn War Memorial. It was attended by current and future Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO politicians Lincoln Restler and Jo Anne Simon. (Brooklyn Eagle)
2. More than half of all New Yorkers say they are planning on taking some level of COVID-19 precautions this Thanksgiving, according to the results from a Patch survey. Despite low cases and high vaccination rates more than 50% say they aren't traveling. (NYC Patch)
3. Tearing down the BQE, capping the Cross Bronx Expressway, building a new tunnel under the Hudson River, building a new outer-borough Bay Ridge subway line: those are just some of the ideas on how New York City should spend its cash from the bipartisan infrastructure bill. (NYC Patch)

Today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

• SATURDAY: Brooklyn Folk Festival at St. Ann & Holy Trinity (All day)
• SATURDAY: Open hours at the Environmental Education Center (1 p.m.)
• ALL WEEKEND: Next Stop Friendsgiving Pop-Up Shop in DUMBO (All day)
• SUNDAY: Hope for Haiti fundraising gala (3 p.m.)
• SUNDAY: Open Studios: textile artists Liz Collins & Victoria Manganiello in DUMBO (12 p.m. - 6 p.m.)

Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO Patch Notebook

• The City Hall in Your Borough Resource Fair is taking place on November 16 from 2-6 p.m. "Meet with city commissioners and senior staff to address all your questions and concerns about quality of life, public health, safety, and more." (Instagram)
• Brooklyn Heights Parents: "Join an Upcoming Admissions Event at Blue School! Blue School educates children age two through grade 8 to be adaptable thinkers, collaborative problem solvers, and irrepressible innovators who take an active role in their education." (Facebook)
• In the latest bi-weekly construction update for DUMBO...it looks like there's still lots of construction. (Facebook)
• It's a "green light weekend" in Brooklyn Heights, with no major train disruptions. (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

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