🌱 Sunset Park Community Calls Warehouses 'Environmental Racism'

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

First, today's weather:

Mostly cloudy; breezy, mild. High: 60 Low: 55.

Here are the top stories today in Sunset Park:

1. Sunset Park residents and community groups are concerned by the concentration of "last mile" delivery facilities in their neighborhood, which they say are paramount to "environmental racism." More and more warehouses are cropping up across the city, thanks to the increased demand for e-commerce, and they are largely unregulated. (THE CITY)
2. Mayor de Blasio announced on Wednesday plans to create a "blue highway," investing $38 million into increased shipping through the city's waterways and therefore decreasing the amount of trucks on the streets. That investment could likely have an impact on Sunset Park, which is already close to large Brooklyn shipping ports. (NYC Patch)
3. New York City's tourism agency is spotlighting Asian-American neighborhoods across the five boroughs with a series of interactive guides. Here's the guide for Sunset Park, that includes lots of restaurants and cafés, mainly along 8th Avenue. (nycgo.com)

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Today in Sunset Park:

• Crossfit class at Industry City (5:30 p.m.)
• Double Feature live performance: The Cult of Pop + The Krampus at Industry City (6 p.m.)
• Sunset Park Assembly district holiday party at L'Wren bar, 4004 5th avenue (6:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Politicians, including Marcela Mitaynes, Jumaane Williams, and Antonio Reynoso, are forming a coalition to try to regulate the new warehouse facilities. (Twitter)
  
• Check out this comprehensive list of sites you can get tested for COVID in Brooklyn. (Twitter)
• Councilmember Carlos Menchaca called out the city for apparently turning away residents looking to get COVID tests at Bay and Clinton Streets an hour and a half before the site was scheduled to close. (Twitter)

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— Dashiell Allen