🌱Tear Down BQE + Bike Plan Conflict + $600 Rent For Studio Apt.

Hello, neighbors! It's me again, Dashiell Allen, your host of the Sunset Park Daily.

First, today's weather:

Mild with heavy rain. High: 64 Low: 48.

Here are the top stories in Sunset Park today:

1. Sunset Park community members and organizations have conflicting opinions over the Department of Transportation's modified Sunset Park bike plan on Eighth and Seventh avenues. They worry that having only one lane of traffic in either direction could lead to a bottleneck. The lack of parking, they say, could hurt small businesses. (Brooklyn Paper)
2. An influential Brooklyn business leader called to 'tear the BQE down' at a meeting on Wednesday morning. The expressway, which cuts through Sunset Park along 3rd Avenue, displaced communities of color when it was built by the infamous city planner Robert Moses. (Brooklyn Paper)
3. An affordable housing lottery opened up for 49 below-market-rate apartments above a new library in Sunset Park, with studio rents as low as under $600 per month. (6Sqft)
4. The Salvation Army of Greater NY just announced its Thanksgiving Day meals across the city. They'll be in Sunset Park from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on November 24. (Harlem World Magazine)
5. According to the latest data, New York City has the lowest COVID-19 positivity rate in New York, making it the safest place to be in the state — and possibly in the country. (NYC Patch)

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Today in Sunset Park:

• Southwest Brooklyn Day: Industry City Design Studios Tour (4 p.m. - 8 p.m.)
• Cyborg reading group (7 p.m.)
• Live Latin music (7 p.m.)

Sunset Park Patch Notebook

• Sunset Park 5th Avenue BID: "Thank you Veterans for your service!" (Facebook)
• Fifth Avenue Committee: "Don't hesitate! Take a COVID test today and have peace of mind. Visit NYC.Gov/COVIDTest or text "COVID TEST" to 855-48 and find a test site near you." (Facebook)
• Sunset Park's Community Board 7 reportedly has not received information that it requested about multiple city agency projects taking place throughout the neighborhood. (Sunset Park Reports)

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