🌱 Ecology Center To Move + Resiliency Project Trudges On

Welcome to the Thursday installment of the Lower East Side-Chinatown Daily Digest. I am your host Patrick Murray, as always, bringing the latest local updates.

First, today's weather:

Sunny and warm with a high of 74 and a low of 59.

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

1. The city's Coastal Resiliency Project has forced the Lower East Side Ecology Center to relocate. The existing East River compost yard of 22 years will be moving to Staten Island. A partial park closure is approaching in the near future on account of Mayor Bill de Blasio's push to break ground on his controversial project. (Bowery Boogie)
2. A video showing the raising of the Taiwan flag in Chinatown has gone viral at 62 Mott St. The flag raising ceremony commenced in front of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. (Taiwan News)
3. The Department of Design and Construction and the NYC Parks Department led a tour of the East River Park construction areas which highlight the two agencies' plans for the Coastal Resiliency Project. The ever-controversial plans has faced setbacks throughout, and has proved to be unpopular in the minds of many locals. While the need to protect against the impending threats caused by global warming, many believe that the project does not hold the needs of the community in high regard. (AMNY)

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Today in Lower East Side-Chinatown:

• Practical Advice in Reducing Health and Safety Risk in the Aftermath of Weather-Related Emergencies. (Noon)
• The 3Rs of Reflective Teaching: Reflect, Review, Redesign. (2 p.m. )
• The Future of Work: Navigating Your Career After COVID-19. (5 p.m.)
• Comedians with Ghost Stories Live! (9:30 p.m.)

Lower East Side-Chinatown Patch Notebook

• Are you searching for a canine companion? Look no further than Animal Haven. (Facebook)
• Join the Lower East Side's Tenement Museum for a virtual book talk with Petes's Pie owner, Petra Paredez. (Facebook)
• Actors Nicholas Turturro and Luis Guzman shooting NYPD blue on the Lower East Side. (Facebook)

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