🌱 Eighth Ave Bike Lane Plan Change + Power Plants + Vax Mandate

Happy Thursday, neighbors! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening locally today.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 60 Low: 50.

Here are the top stories today in Sunset Park:

1. The Department of Transportation unveiled a modified proposal for the hotly contested redesign of Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Sunset Park. While the original proposal included bike lanes on both avenues and made them one-way, the modification create a two-way protected bike lane on Seventh. Eighth Avenue is a dangerous street: between 2014 and 2018 the area between 39th and 66th streets saw 233 pedestrian injuries. (Brooklyn Eagle)
2. Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday that she was ditching a widely opposed plan to build a new power plant in Astoria, Queens. But that doesn't stop the Astoria Generating Company’s plan to replace its gas-fired peaker plants, located near Sunset Park and Gowanus. (The City)
3. Speaking of Governor Hochul, she said yesterday that she isn't ruling out a vaccine mandate for public school students, depending on whether there's a significant rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations. (NYC Patch)

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Today in Sunset Park:

• Sunset Dancers at Sunset Park (10 a.m.)
• Crossfit at Industry City (5:30 p.m.)
• Live Music: Francis Jacob Album Release (7 p.m.)
• SAT Day - 12th grade - Sunset Park High School (All day)

Sunset Park Patch Notebook

• Activists demand $3 billion more for New York State's excluded worker's fund (Twitter)
• Here's a reminder about the port pollution near Sunset Park (Twitter)
• Call to action to help a local neighbor from the Sunset Park Tenants Association (Instagram)

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