🌱 Heights State Senate Race Heats Up + Gage & Tollner Wins Award

Up and at 'em, Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO! Here's everything you need to know to get this Wednesday started off right. Here's everything going on around town today.

First, today's weather:

Breezy and warmer. High: 66 Low: 31.

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

1. The race for Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO's newly drawn State Senate district is heating up–and Brooklynite is throwing his hat in the ring. Brooklyn Heights resident David Yassky, who previously served in the governor's office, is running, although he does not appear to have launched his campaign website. In Staten Island, two candidates, Jessica Scarcella-Spanton and Bianca Rajpersaud are racking up endorsements against one another. Staten Island accounts for the greater part of the oddly-shaped district. (SILive.com)
2. The restoration of the Downtown Brooklyn restaurant Gage & Tollner, which was completed last year, will receive an award from the NYC Landmarks Conservancy in April. The restaurant, a Brooklyn staple for over 100 years, briefly became a fast-food joint and jewelry store before restoration began in 2019. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
3. DUMBO is the place to be to find a public bathroom in New York City — at least according to Fodor's Travel. The site mentions the now closed location of Brooklyn Roasting, as well as the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy's environmental education center. (Fodor's Travel)

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Today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

• Community Board 2 youth, education, and cultural affairs committee monthly meeting: a Q&A with BAM, STOKED, and St. Nick's Alliance–online, via Zoom (6 p.m.)
• DUMBO Drink + Draw at Creatively Wild Art Studio, 98 Water Street (6 p.m.)
• *VIRTUAL* Book Talk with Powerhouse Books: Manywhere by Morgan Thomas and Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• There's still quite a bit of construction going on in DUMBO–including, in the next two weeks, sewer and manhole installation. (Facebook)
• The Brooklyn Democratic Party appointed Andy Marte as its new director, despite his voter registration up until 2019 classifying him as a Republic and social media posts and retweets made in his name that espouse GOP talking points. The New Kings Democrats aren't all too happy. (The City)
• Showtime's 'City on a Hill' will back to Brooklyn Heights on Thursday for another round of filming. (Brooklyn Heights Blog)

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— Dashiell Allen