🌱 Senior Center Renamed + Heights Liquor Store Vs. To-Go Drinks

Welcome back, Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO! Here's everything you need to know to get this day started. Here's everything worth knowing around Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO today.

First, today's weather:

Sunny and not as cold. High: 33 Low: 28.

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

1. Liquor stores across New York State aren't pleased with Governor Hochul's decision to support bringing back drinks to-go from restaurants permanently. Michael Correra, the owner of Michael-Towne Wines & Spirits in Brooklyn Heights, is the leader of one of the largest liquor store lobbying groups, the Metropolitan Package Store Association. The group is worried that restaurants selling full bottles of wine and liquor could cut into their profits. They first began organizing in the 2000s to oppose efforts to legalize wine sales in grocery stores. (Gothamist)
2. A low-income senior center on Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights was re-named after former Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. The center, which has been operating since 1979, is run by Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
3. Jed Walentas, the CEO of DUMBO's own Two Trees Development, was named number 11 on a list of New York State's top 100 real estate "power players." The listing notes that Walentas was a contributor to both Mayor Adams' mayoral campaign, and his former nonprofit, One Brooklyn Fund. (City & State)

Today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

• Pop-up pantry at St. Ann & Holy Trinity Church (10:30 a.m.)
• Laser Cut City: Interactive Installation, at NYU Tandon MakerSpace, 6 MetroTech Center (12 p.m. - 6 p.m.)
• Open hours at the Brooklyn Bridge Park environmental education center (3 p.m.)
• Telephone town hall with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Monday was Valentine's Day, and also national Organ Donors Day, as Jo Anne Simon reminds us. (Twitter)
• Lincoln Restler supports a "fair fares" program that would provide low-cost MetroCard fairs to low-income New Yorkers. (Twitter)

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