🌱 NYU Langone Gets Massive Grant + Food Court Opens In Chinatown

Hey, people of Sunset Park! It's me again, Dashiell Allen, your host of the Sunset Park Daily.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and breezy. High: 44 Low: 32.

Here are the top stories in Sunset Park today:

1. NYU Langone Hospital in Sunset Park received a $166 million grant from the Bezos family, which it is planning to use to help "address social determinants of health and key drivers of health inequities." (NYU Langone Health)
2. After 56 years two men who were wrongly convicted of murdering Malcolm X were exonerated and had their cases thrown out. A third man, however, Mujahid Abdul Halim, who confessed to being the real killer, had been released on bail back in 2010. Halim, 80, now lives quietly in Sunset Park. (The New York Times)
3. Manhattan's Chinatown got a new food court in the location previously occupied by Joy Luck Palace on Mott Street. It's the first of it's kind there. (Gothamist)

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Today in Sunset Park:

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• Tuesday Bluesday at Freddy's Bar (8:30 p.m.)

Sunset Park Patch Notebook

• Fifth Avenue Committee: "Applications for the Sunset Park Library & Affordable Housing project will be accepted now through January 13th." (Facebook)
• Alexa Avilés is hiring for multiple positions in her City Council office. If you live in Sunset Park and are looking for employment, send over your resumé. (Twitter)
• The Street Vendors Project launched an ongoing scavenger hunt game that teams of up to five can play across the city–while supporting local vendors at the same time. Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes caught up with them over the weekend. (NBC New York)

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