🌱 Graffiti Troubles Community Center + Full Climate Plan Revealed

Happy Sunday, Lower East Side-Chinatown! It's your host Patrick Murray here with a couple important headlines from the neighborhood.

First, today's weather:

Breezy and rainy with a high of 40 and a low of 28.

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

1. The walls of a Lower East Side community center have increasingly become eyesores due to graffiti. The Grand St. Settlement’s Youth Center at NYCHA’s Seward Park Houses have been vandalized six times in the past three months, and surveillance cameras have captured pictures of the vandals. Site director Laura Li hopes to hire a local artist to replace the graffiti with a beautiful mural. (WPIX 11 New York)
2. The Mayor’s Office of Climate Resiliency recently released their Climate Resilience Master Plan, which is projected to total $7 billion. The project has been subject to controversy from its inception, as construction crews have begun to demolish the beloved East River Park. (6sqft)

Today in Lower East Side-Chinatown:

• Immigrant Jam Comedy, at Caveat. (1:30 p.m.)
• "Executioners From Shaolin" screening at The Metrograph. (4:15 p.m.)
• Live music at Arlene's Grocery. (6:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Rick the cat of Animal Haven prefers to take things nice and slow. (Facebook)
• The Lower East Side Ecology Center will be conducting six virtual workshops as part of their Master Composter Certification Course! (Facebook)
• Throwback photo of the Manhattan Bridge. (Facebook)

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— Patrick Murray