🌱 Sunset Park Daily: Sims Municipal Recycling Facility + Attack

Happy Wednesday, Sunset Park! Diane Witek here with everything you need to know to get this day started off right. Here's everything worth knowing today in Sunset Park.

First, today's weather:

A little afternoon rain. High: 45, low: 43.

Here are the top stories in Sunset Park today:

1. The Sims Municipal Recycling Facility is the largest recycling processing plant in the country and located in the heart of Sunset Park. See an up-close interview at the processing plant with NBC New York reporter, Lauren Scala. (NBC New York)
2. See six properties for sale in our real-estate roundup; we're bringing you some of the newest and most interesting houses to hit the market in and around Sunset Park. Check out the open houses as well! (Sunset Park Patch)
3. Permanent outside dining was approved by City Council not long ago; but now it has hit a snag with Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Frank Nervo. Nervo is siding with residents saying that a fuller environmental study needs to be conducted before it becomes permanent. Outside dining was a savior for restaurants during the pandemic, but, according to residents, has become a rat magnet as well as creating noise and clogging sidewalks. (Patch)
4. Police are looking for a man who is approximately 6 feet tall, weighs 155 pounds and has a slim build. "He was last seen wearing a dark colored jacket, a yellow hooded sweatshirt and dark colored pants," police said. He allegedly sexually attacked a 23-year-old woman at the Prospect Lefferts Gardens station, then fled when another subway rider walked by. Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). (Patch)

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From my notebook:

• Fifth Avenue Committee: "Thank you to the NYS Assembly and the NYS Senate for including #Coverage4All in their one house budgets! Assembly Speaker Honorable Speaker of the New York State Assembly Carl E. Heastie, Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins." (Facebook)
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• Free Wash at Clean Rite Center's 8905 Flatlands Ave. location. (Details)
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• Studio Apartment. (Details)
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That's it for today! See you tomorrow morning for another update.

— Diane Witek

About me: Impassioned Writer, Website Designer, Social Media Marketer and newly proclaimed Baker. Lover of nature and animals of all kinds.