🌱 Sunset Park Daily: Open Houses + National Warehouse Capital

Happy Thursday, neighbors! Diane Witek here to get you all caught up on what's happening locally to start today off on an informed note.

First, today's weather:

Cooler with rain and drizzle. High: 51, low: 47.

Here are the top stories today in Sunset Park:

1. Five Sunset Park area open houses. At Patch, we provide a glimpse into open houses throughout the area. Here are the addresses, photos, prices and bedroom/bath information for all properties listed — including one in the Brooklyn area with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths for $1.7 million, and another in the Brooklyn area with 1 bedroom and 1 bath for $328,000. (Sunset Park Patch)
2. The city recently kicked off $109 million worth of renovations and upgrades to Brooklyn parks. The $417 million citywide project will go to over 104 projects, including 29 in Brooklyn alone. The single largest investment is a $20.3 million allocation to reconstruct the Brownsville Recreation Center. (Brooklyn Paper)
3. The New York City region is turning into a national warehouse capital, thanks to an e-commerce boom. In just two years, Amazon has acquired more than 50 warehouses across the city and its surrounding suburbs. UPS is building a logistics facility larger than Madison Square Garden on the New Jersey waterfront near Lower Manhattan, wrote the New York Times. (Subscription: The New York Times)
4. The New York Department of Health underreported COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50 percent, according to a new report published Thursday by New York Attorney General Letitia James. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
5. Take-out wine and liquor drinks did not make it into Democratic lawmakers in New York's Assembly and Senate 2022-2023 budget resolutions. "The Senate intentionally omits the Executive proposal to allow on-premises establishments to sell wine or liquor drinks for take-out or delivery," the Senate's resolution states. (Patch)

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