🌱 Flooding At NYC Migrant Housing Site + Sunday's Medieval Festival

Good morning, New York City!

• 🌧 The area surround NYC's planned tent camp to house migrants saw flooding over the weekend.
• 🏰 Did you know that a massive medieval-themed festival attracting 60,000 people took place on Sunday?
• 🗑 Curbside-composting begins in Queens today.

But first, today's weather:

Windy with clearing. High: 60 Low: 48.

Here are the top five stories today in New York City:

1. The area immediately surrounding New York City's planned 'tent city' for migrants saw flooding from rain over the weekend, furthering criticisms of the site's location, which is a federally recognized "special flood hazard area" according to reports. The city maintains that the site is equipped to handle inclement weather. (Gothamist)
2. The new chief of the NYC Department of Corrections' training program has quit after just 9 days on the job. He was previously led Rikers Island's Emergency Service Unit, which has been criticized for its use of violent tactics. (New York Daily News)
3. The Parks Department's largest annual event that you've never heard of, a massive medieval-themed festival attracting 60,000 participants, returned to Washington Heights after a two-year hiatus on Sunday. Some local residents and businesses, however, are concerned that the event has a history of excluding by design the local community it takes place in. (New York City Patch)
4. The Department of Sanitation is rolling out a composting pilot program in Queens on Monday. The DSNY has been giving out free bins to place food scraps in, although any sealed bin will work. The program will run for three months through December and then restart again in March. (AMNY)
5. Asylum seekers who have been in New York City for several months–since as far back as July–say they are still struggling to access resources including stable housing, access to work, and legal assistance to help with their asylum cases, with the city acknowledging it could take up to hundreds of millions of dollars to provide legal representation. (THE CITY)

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Today in New York City:

• Turnout The Bronx: Workshop - Hunts Point Riverside Park (3 p.m.)
• Robert Simonson Book Launch Party (6:30 p.m.)
• What Everyone's Talking About with Abigail Pogrebin: Marc Shaiman, Award-Winning Composer (7:30 p.m.)
• Christian Sands Quartet - Blue Note Jazz Club (8 p.m.)

Crime and safety corner:

• A man was killed after being slashed in the neck on a southbound L train on Friday evening, police say. (Spectrum NY1)
• A food delivery worker was hospitalized in Brooklyn on Saturday night after a car collided with the e-bike he was riding. (New York Post)

From my notebook:

• The 5th annual ‘Trail to Zero,' a march through Manhattan on Saturday, raised awareness about veteran suicide. (AMNY)
• An interactive online tracker from the Audubon Society maps the full extent of bird migration across the United States, including in the New York City region. (SILive.com)
• The annual 'blessing of the animals' returned to the Cathedral of St. John the Devine on Sunday. (Pix 11)
• Puerto Rican New Yorkers gathered on Sunday for an annual silent procession which, every year since the landfall of Hurricane Maria in 2017, calls attention to the struggles Puerto Rico faces. Yesterday's gathering brought urgency to the island's ongoing recovery from Hurricane Fiona. (AMNY)
• Red Hook residents and community members are upset after a local pandemic-era park was abruptly closed by a city agency. (CBS New York)

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