🌱 Lawmakers To Increase Voting Rights + Giving Tuesday + COVID

Rise and shine, Sunset Park! Here's everything you need to know to get this Tuesday started off right.

First, today's weather:

Some sun, then clouds. High: 42 Low: 36.

Here are the top stories today in Sunset Park:

1. New York lawmakers are considering their options to increase voting rights in the state in lieu of the failure to pass two constitutional amendments. They want to move the date for registration to 10 days before an election, and to extend no-excuse absentee voting through 2024. The push is being led in part by Sunset Park State Senator Zellnor Myrie. (Gothamist)
2. Here's 15 local Brooklyn nonprofits to consider giving to this Giving Tuesday. (Brooklyn Reader)
3. Citizens Committee for NYC announced it's giving out $5,000 grants for Brooklyn-based neighborhood and community initiatives. That's money to organize your neighbors, not necessarily to fund an established nonprofit. (Brooklyn Reader)
4. Amid rapidly evolving news around the newly identified omicron COVID-19 variant, Mayor De Blasio and Governor Hochul encouraged caution yesterday, suggesting masks should be worn indoors at all times. They stopped short of reinstating a full mask mandate. (NYC Patch)

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Today in Sunset Park:

• Branches of Recovery:Harnessing Public Libraries to Ensure an Inclusive Recovery and Rebuild a More Equitable City (8 a.m.)
• Adaptive programming and more at Sunset Park rec. center (12 p.m.)
• Brooklyn Community Board 7: Special Subcommittee on Last Mile Trucking Facilities (6 p.m.)
• Spirited Away Psychic + Paranormal Night (6 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Fifth Avenue Committee: "Find out what groups are recognized under the New York Hate Crime Law below. For more information on hate crimes visit: nyc.gov/StopHate" (Facebook)
• Green-Wood Cemetery: "#SpeciesOfTheWeek: Three Pinus palustris were planted around the grove of live oaks where Margin and Mimosa Paths converge. Commonly known as longleaf pine, they are endemic to the southeastern US." (Twitter)

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— Dashiell Allen

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