🌱 Industry City On Ice + Brooklyn Democratic Party Feud

Hey, Sunset Park! Let's get you all caught up to start this Monday, November 15 off on an informed note. These are the most important things going on in Sunset Park today.

First, today's weather:

Breezy with a stray shower. High: 50 Low: 37.

Here are the top stories in Sunset Park today:

1. Industry City is reopening its ice rink on November 19, just in time for the holiday season. (Time Out NY)
2. Tensions are at an all-time high in the Kings (Brooklyn) County Democratic Party, where progressive party members are making allegations of racism, sexism, and insider dealings against county party boss Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn. Sunset Park Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez joined a press conference last Friday. (The City)
3. 11% of the NYPD workforce is requesting an exception to the vaccine mandate–that's three times as many people as in any other agency. While they wait for their request to be approved or denied the officers are allowed to continue working if they submit to regular testing. (Gothamist)

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Today in Sunset Park:

• FABSCRAP Volunteer session to "save designer textiles from landfill" (9 a.m.)
• BodyArt Physical Therapy in Industry City (5:30 p.m.)
• Brooklyn Community Board 7 Ability and Access Committee featuring a presentation by Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled (6 p.m.)
• NYC Council Speaker's Forum Watch Party in Sunset Park (7 p.m.)

Sunset Park Patch Notebook

• Sunset Park and Red Hook Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes shares the story of her Chief of Staff, Jenny Zhang, who became a naturalized US citizen over the weekend. (Twitter)
• C0uncilmember-elect Alexa Avilés was featured on the Spanish-language television network Univision about her plans for the district. (Univision)
• P.S. 094 The Henry Longfellow School held a pop-up vaccine site. (Twitter)

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