🌱 Garbage Truck Strikes Pedestrian + Brooklyn Heights Play

Happy Monday, people of Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO! Here's everything you need to know to get this day started off right. Here's everything worth knowing around town today.

First, today's weather:

Some rain and a thunderstorm. High: 69 Low: 41.

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

1. Brooklyn Heights' own theater company, Theater 2020, is putting on a live virtual reading with the Brooklyn Public Library on Saturday of the play “The Dark Lady of the Sonnets,” which tells the tale of a fictional impromptu encounter between Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I. (Brooklyn Heights Blog)
2. On Friday afternoon a garbage truck fatally struck a 62-year-old outside of Barclay's Center. Councilman Lincoln Restler blamed the incident in part on the Department of Transportation, stating the intersection along Flatbush Avenue wasn't adequately marked. (Brooklyn Paper)
3. Brooklyn politicians are urging Mayor Adams to reconsider his proposal to cut funding to the Department of Sanitation by almost $50 million. Adams says his cuts would not result in additional layoffs, but instead would be the result of not filling currently vacant positions. He's also suspended the city's composting program (which was set to come back in Brooklyn Heights), citing low interest. (Gothamist)

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Today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

• Professional Playbook Series with Dr. Nyaka NiiLampti, NFL, at Maroney Theater, St. Francis College (12:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Here's some photos from Brooklyn Bridge Parents' indoor block party on Saturday.(Instagram)
• The Independent Neighborhood Democrats joined a protest march for a new deal for CUNY, starting at Borough Hall and walking over the Brooklyn Bridge. (Twitter)
• Petitioning kicked off last week for the upcoming June primaries. Over the weekend Jo Anne Simon joined other elected officials outside of Prospect Park to support Max Rose for Congress in the newly drawn Park Slope–Staten Island district. (Twitter)

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