🌱 Veterans Day + Fall Foliage + Brooklyn Heights Film Set

Happy Thursday, Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO today.

First, today's weather:

Some sun, then clouds. High: 60 Low: 58.

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

1. Le' French Tart Deli, BK Lobster, a Tuscan restaurant, and more! Here's the latest in restaurant and small business openings and closings around Brooklyn Heights. (Brooklyn Bridge Parents)
2. Passing, a new feature film from Netflix exploring race and gender in the 1920s, was filmed largely in Brooklyn Heights. The film is the story of two biracial women, one of whom passes as white. (Untapped New York)
3. Today is Veteran's Day, and the city's annual parade is back in person this year along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan starting at 8 a.m. (NYC Patch)
4. Now that it's open 365 days a year (and easily accessible from The Heights and DUMBO), Governor's Island has emerged as one of the best places in the city to see fall foliage, with its over 3,000 trees. (Gothamist)

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Today in Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO:

• Veterans Day memorial at Cadman Plaza Park (10:30 a.m.)
• Virtual Hatha yoga with the YMCA (12 p.m.)
• Veterans Day Evensong Service at St. Ann & Holy Trinity (6:30 p.m.)
• Book Launch: On the Roof by Josh Katz (7 p.m.)
• DUMBO comedy night (9 p.m.)

Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO Patch Notebook

• Considering ordering out for Thanksgiving dinner? This list of 15 restaurants features DUMBO's own Estuary, with options for four to six people starting at $270. (6Sqft)
• Center for Brooklyn History: "The Mrs. Field’s Literary Club records are now available! Mrs. Mary J. Field founded the Club in 1884 to foster “literary culture and... social discourse” among her students and other women in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood."(Facebook)
• The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce discussed the BQE as "“probably the single most important transportation project” for NYC. The Brooklyn Heights Association praised Carlo Scissura, who said "Tear the BQE down!" (Twitter)

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