🌱 Congressional, State Senate Lines To Be Redrawn + Brooklyn Earth Day

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

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny, windy and cool. High: 55 Low: 39.

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

1. New York State's top appeals court announced on Wednesday its decision to throw out newly-drawn Congressional and State Senate district lines, suggesting they had been gerrymandered to favor Democratic lawmakers. This means the newly-drawn Senate district stretching from Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO to parts of Staten Island might be no more. The primary date will also likely be pushed back to sometime in August. (New York City Patch)
2. Brooklyn Eagle reporter Mary Frost chronicled Downtown Brooklyn's celebration of Earth Day through photographs. The celebration included Native American rituals, a larger-than-life chess set, and lots of pedestrianized streets. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
3. The MTA is shifting its focus to the issue of fare evasion–but don't call it a crackdown, according to the transit agency's Chair and CEO Janno Lieber, who described it as being "at the verge of an epidemic." he wants to stop fare evasion by creating new turnstile designs and cracking down on "porous" emergency exits. (New York City Patch)

Today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

• Virtual Hatha Yoga with the YMCA (12 p.m.)
• Open hours at Brooklyn Bridge Park environmental center (3 p.m.)
• Community Board 2 Finance & Personnel Committee Meeting, online via Zoom (6 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Here's five open houses coming up soon in DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights. (Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO Patch)
• The First Unitarian Church will be hosting an e-waste recycling collection event Sunday. Make sure to check which items are eligible. (LES Ecology Center)
• This DUMBO building just got a bird-friendly makeover to its glass panels. (Twitter)

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— Dashiell Allen