🌱 Sunset Park Vaccination + Public School + 'Political Travesty'

Happy Monday, people of Sunset Park! Here's everything you need to know going on locallytoday.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and breezy. High: 59 Low: 46.

Here are the top stories in Sunset Park today:

1. Today marks the start of enforcement of a vaccine mandate for New York City workers, and 26,000 of them didn't make the cut. They now face unpaid time off. About 19,000 got a jab since De Blasio announced the mandate on October 20th. (Gothamist)
2. Speaking of COVID-19 vaccinations, major discrepancies remain between the rates in different neighborhoods. Sunset Park has the highest vaccination rate in Brooklyn, at 96%, while neighboring Borough Park is at a meager 48%. (AM New York)
3. Larry Racioppo, a Sunset Park native, shares photos from New York City Halloweens past. (Buzzfeed)
4. New York City public school enrollment is down by 1.9%, or about 64,000 students, according to recently released numbers. The drop has to do with a variety of factors: the pandemic, families opting for private or charter schools, and even a declining birth rate. (The City via Patch)

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Today in Sunset Park:

• Staff/Student-Led Workshops - High School of Telecommunication (1:20 p.m.)
• bodyART: Physical Therapy in Industry City (5:30 p.m.)
• Dia de Los Muertos Public Art Installation by Cynthia Fortozo: ballet performance (5 p.m.)
• Trivia Night with Big Alice Beer (7 p.m.)

Sunset Park Patch Notebook

• Councilmember Menchaca honored Día de los Muertos and Mexican heritage this weekend (Twitter)
• NYPD Domestic Violence officers informed the public about DV this weekend in Sunset Park (Twitter)
• Alexa Avilés, Democratic City Council nominee, gave her thoughts on the 8th/9th Avenue redesign in Sunset Park, calling the process itself "a political travesty." (Twitter)
• Industry City: "The spookiest of weekends cannot pass without highlighting Morbid Anatomy, a research library + collection featuring hundreds of rare books, photographs, artworks, pieces of ephemera, and artifacts from around the world." (Instagram)

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