🌱 NYPD Auto Pound On Fire + Starbucks Workers End Strike

Good morning, New York City!

• 🔥 A Brooklyn auto pound storing cars seized by the NYPD is on fire in Red Hook.
• 📚 NYC is increasing the number of special early education seats.
• 🧸 The Museum of Nostalgia is opening in Astoria!

But first, today's weather:

Breezy. High: 40 Low: 32.

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

1. A massive fire that officials expected could burn on for several days broke out yesterday morning at a Brooklyn NYPD auto pound, injuring eight people. The Red Hook facility is used for storing cars that have been seized for reasons other than parking violations. (New York City Patch)
2. The workers at the Meatpacking District Starbucks Roastery location have ended a nearly 50-day strike that began after reports of mold and bedbugs. The workers said they gained mold inspections and new health and safety trainings as part of an agreement with the company's management. (New York City Patch)
3. One year after its opening, East Harlem residents have conflicting views on New York City's (and the nation's) first safe injection site, with some attributing it to increasing crime rates and in the neighborhood, while the city maintains it has been successful in preventing New Yorkers suffering serious consequences to drug overdoses. (THE CITY)
4. New York City will add an additional 800 special education seats to its pre-K and 3-K programs, Mayor Eric Adams announced yesterday. The seats are the result of a $130 million special early education allocation over the next two years that will help 'stabilize' 3,000 seats for pre-K and 3-K students with disabilities. (AMNY)
5. Fifty-eight percent of New York voters think that Gov. Kathy Hochul has not made the state safer from crime, a new poll from Sienna College found, with 51 percent of respondents saying she did not enhance trust in government. The first major poll since Hochul won a full term in office found she had a 45 percent of people viewed her favorably compared to 43 unfavorably. (Gothamist)

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Today in New York City:

• Broadway’s Best for Parkinson’s: It Takes A Village (6 p.m.)
• The Creative Feminine: Energy, Movement, & Breath (6:30 p.m.)
• MoMA Presents: See You Friday, Robinson (7 p.m.)
• New York Festival of Song: A Goyishe Christmas to You! (7 p.m.)
• Lost Dog Comedy: Village Works (7:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• The Tony Awards will take place in Washington Heights' United Palace Theater, the home theater of Broadway superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda, for the first time in its history. (New York City Patch)
• The Geminid meteor shower is visible from New York City's skies this week, here's how you can see it. (New York Post)
• A 30-foot sperm whale died on Tuesday morning after being found stranded on Rockaway Beach, according to the NYC Parks Department. (QNS)
• Part toy store, part showroom, an Astoria couple is opening the Museum of Nostalgia next year, featuring the tens of thousands of toys they have collected. They're holding a pop-up event in their future space this Sunday. (New York City Patch)
• This sanitation worker has a great long-distance toss. (WhatIsNewYork via Twitter)

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