🌱 New BK Heights Grocery + Controversy Over Downtown BK Dog Run

Hello, people of Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO! It's me again, Dashiell Allen, your host of the Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO Daily.

First, today's weather:

A.M. snow, 1-3in; windy, colder. High: 35 Low: 13.

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

1. Activists rallied in Downtown Brooklyn against the construction of a dog-run on a site believed to have once been a stop on the Underground Railroad. They have proposed a monument dubbed "the sisters of freedom," commemorating 5 Black women activists, instead of the city's proposed "text-based installation by artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed inspired by that heritage." (amNY)
2. An investment firm recently sold the new 320-unit building complex at 85 Jay Street for $220 million. Units for the luxury building are slowly entering the market. (Brooklyn Bridge Parents)
3. A new Brooklyn Heights grocery store, Mercado Central, offers speciality foods from across Spain. Also, Joe's Coffee is now open in DUMBO in the former Brooklyn Roasting location. (Brooklyn Bridge Parents)
4. Tuesday was the first day housing courts opened in Downtown Brooklyn since the end of the eviction moratorium. Housing organizers and activists tabled in front of the court entrance, greeting a small line of tenants waiting to enter. (The Indypendent)

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Today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

• Open hours at the Brooklyn Bridge Park environmental education center (3 p.m.)
• Community Board 2 Transportation and Public Safety monthly meeting, online via Zoom (6 p.m.)
• "A talented string quartet performing popular pieces by Taylor Swift" at St. Ann & Trinity Church (6:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Lincoln Restler wants to "craft a regulatory framework" to curb the encroachment of online grocery delivery services into NYC neighborhoods. (Twitter)
• Here's some helpful tips to prevent burglaries - both commercial and residential. (Twitter)
• Learn about aquatic marine life at a Brooklyn Bridge Park webinar next week! (Twitter)

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— Dashiell Allen