🌱 Sunset Park Daily: Opposition To Adams' Appointee + Power Grid

Morning, Sunset Park! Diane Witek here with everything you need to know to get this day started. Here's everything happening in town today.

First, today's weather:

Breezy with rain at times. High: 53, low: 48.

Here are the top stories today in Sunset Park:

1. Patch provides you with information on open houses in the Sunset Park area. Scroll down to the address, photo, price, home size and open-house time for each property on our list — including one in the Brooklyn area with 5 beds and 4 baths for $1.7 million, and another in the Brooklyn area with 1 bed and 1 bath for $375,000. (Sunset Park Patch)
2. Local Park Slope leader joined immigrant rights advocates in speaking out against Mayor Eric Adams' decision to appoint Laurie Cumbo as the Cultural Affairs commissioner. Councilmember Shahana Hanif wrote, in a letter to Mayor Adams, "I cannot in good conscience support someone who has made comments pitting one group against another or someone who has actively fought in the Council to restrict the rights of immigrants," pointing to Cumbo's opposition to a non-citizen voting bill. Cumbo is the latest of Adams' appointees to come under scrutiny upon their assumption of respective roles. (Patch)
   
3. You don't have to be a sake connoisseur to enjoy it. Kato Sake Works opened on Central Avenue in April 2020, an inauspicious time for entrepreneurs—the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order was just days old and there was little demand for a sake taproom in the heart of Brooklyn.
   In his native Japan, there are nearly 1,500 sake breweries. In the States, there are about 25. (One of them, Brooklyn Kura, opened in 2018 and is based in Sunset Park.) (Brooklyn Magazine)
4. Con Edison has started building a "trio of electric transmission projects that will deliver large amounts" of increasingly renewable energy, while helping to enable the eventual retirement of fossil fuel-powered plants and supporting award-winning reliable service. One is in Queens and two other projects, connecting substations in Gowanus and Greenwood in Brooklyn and substations in Goethals and Fox Hills in Staten Island, are expected to be completed in 2025. “New York City’s electric grid is on the cusp of a clean energy transformation,” said John Mandyck, CEO, Urban Green Council. “Smart upgrades will unlock new renewable power, make the grid more resilient and help phase out the dirty peaker plants that pollute NYC’s most vulnerable neighborhoods.” (AMNY)

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Today in Sunset Park:

• MP 1 grades due — High School of Telecommunication. (All Day)

From my notebook:

• Sunset Park BID: "@sunsetbagels this morning. 4903 5th Ave. Indoor seating is back! #bagels, #sunsetparkbrooklyn, #storesofsunsetpark ." (Instagram)
• Sunset Park BID: "Undated photo. Looks like standing at 52nd Street corner looking towards 51st on 5th Avenue." (Instagram)
• Sunset Park BID: "Our neighbors at Greenwood Cemetery. Repost from @historicgreenwood • Welcome, spring! Slowly but surely, small patches of plantings are creating flashes of color as flowers push their way up through the earth to meet the sun." (Instagram)
• Sunset Park BID: "Springtime means more outside time. Why not check out Sean Casey animal rescue? If you are unable to adopt, they always need volunteers. Repost from @nyanimalrescue • Hello Friends! Our Super Spring Raffle has begun! Get your entries." (Instagram)
• Fifth Avenue Committee: "#Coverage4All would create a state-funded Essential Plan for all New Yorkers up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level who are currently excluded because of their immigration status. Help us get #Coverage4All in the NYS budget!" (Facebook)
• Fifth Avenue Committee: "Get tested for #COVID19 right away if you feel unwell, even if you only have minor symptoms. Visit NYC.Gov/COVIDTest or text "COVID TEST" to find a test site near you." (Facebook)

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— Diane Witek

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