🌱 Packer Teacher Fired + BK Navy Yard Tech Hub + New Book Club

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

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny. High: 60 Low: 49.

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

1. The prestigious Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights fired its athletics director and class of 2023 dean of students Darrin Fallick for "unprofessional behavior." Fallick, who hasn't been seen at the school since before Columbus Day, has been accused by female colleagues of inappropriate touching and sexual harassment. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
2. The law firm Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete is leaving SoHo and setting up shop in the former Jehovah's Witnesses buildings in DUMBO on 175 Pearl St. (Commercial Observer)
3. It looks like it's going to be rainy over Halloween weekend. Luckily for trick-or-treaters the rain should stop by Sunday night, but it's possible that some weekend events could get washed out. (NYC Patch)
4. The Brooklyn Navy Yard announced a partnership with New York City College of Technology and the Pratt Institute to build a new tech hub, that they hope will open by early 2022. (New York YIMBY)

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Today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

• Virtual Hatha yoga with the YMCA (12 p.m.)
• Open hours at the Environmental Education Center (3 p.m.)
• Amp'd with Chelsea Piers Fitness on Pier 2 Turf–last time of the season! (6 p.m.)
• Book Launch: speculation, n by Shayla Lawz – a book about "poetry, sound, and performance" (7 p.m.)

Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO Patch Notebook

• Brooklyn Bridge Parents is hosting a book club at Mcknally Jackson in Downtown Brooklyn, exclusively for "Bklyn mamas." (Instagram)
• Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation: "It’s spooky season in the neighborhood" (Facebook)
• There appears to be lots of pumpkins for sale outside of Apple Gourmet Farm at 404 Atlantic Avenue! (Facebook)
• Local Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon announced she's bringing free mammogram screenings to the district in December. (Twitter)
• There's new trash cans on Pierrepont Street. (Twitter)

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— Dashiell Allen

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