🌱 City's Flood Prevention Plan + Local Business Short-Staffed

Happy hump day, Lower East Side-Chinatown! I am your host, Patrick Murray, bringing you everything you need to know to get this Wednesday started.

First, today's weather:

Mild with a high of 56 and a low of 52.

Here are the top stories today in Lower East Side-Chinatown:

1. The city has a new proposal to protect the Financial District and Seaport from flooding. The plan would extend the eastern edge of Manhattan's tip by 188 feet, while raising the shoreline and possibly lowering the elevated portion of the FDR between the Brooklyn Bridge and Battery Park. The city’s Economic Development Corporation plans to reveal a master plan for the project by the end of the year. (amNY)
2. The owner of the Lower East Side eatery, Diller, has struggled to keep his restaurant staffed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mike Garlic founded the restaurant on 2019, and lost five employees during the pandemic who never came back to work. Garlick is just one of many local small business owners who have struggled due to the pandemic. (WPIX 11 New York)

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Today in Lower East Side-Chinatown:

• La Cocina de Loisaida, Essex Market. (6 p.m.)
• Cinema Chats: "Shtisel," Museum at Eldridge Street. (6 p.m.)
• Verite, Bowery Ballroom. (7 p.m.)

Lower East Side-Chinatown Patch Notebook

• A snowy day on the Lower East Side, 1982. (Facebook)
• About 40 people rallied yesterday in the East River Park to protest the planned demolition of the historic Tennis Center Comfort Station and Track House, courtesy of the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative. (Facebook)
• The Grand St. Settlement is thrilled to see stronger protections and inclusion for Trans community members being enacted statewide. (Facebook)
• Join the Tenement Museum for a virtual book talk with Eric K. Washington. (Facebook)

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