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Good Morning, Brooklyn: Friday, October 15 , 2021

October 15, 2021 Brooklyn Eagle Staff
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DEKALB STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS: Community Board 2’s Transportation & Public Safety Committee monthly meeting, convening next Thursday, October 21 via Zoom, will be given a presentation on 9 DeKalb Streetscape Improvements, which use the Downtown Brooklyn Vision Plan principles of improving public space and increasing biodiversity throughout Downtown Brooklyn. Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) & JDS Development Group created this plan for the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.

Currently under construction, 9 DeKalb Ave.will be a 93-story residential skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn, whose final height is expected to be 1,066 feet, qualifying the building as the first supertall in the outer boroughs.

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BROOKLYN NATIVE IN SONDHEIM PRODUCTION: Brooklyn native Martin Bell will be starring as the character Fredrick Egerman in 42nd Street Moon’s upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. Considered a romantic farce A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC’s score contains Sondheim’s biggest hit, “Send in the Clowns.”

In what may be the most ambitious venture in the company’s history, 42nd Street Moon has committed to be the first theatre company ever to produce every single professional stage show by legendary composer, Stephen Sondheim.

Actor Martin Bell.
Photo courtesy of 42 St Moon

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NEWLY-MODERNIZED ER: NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull Thursday marked the completion of a major modernization and expansion of the Bushwick/Broadway Triangle area hospital’s emergency department. The ED expansion added 5,000 square feet of space that included 16 additional exam rooms, a new and improved state-of-the-art nurse’s station, a new isolation room, and a “transition hub”, where patients who are being discharged from Emergency are linked to a primary care or specialty service follow-up visit, can receive consultation regarding their medications, and access care-management services.

The expansion project was fully-funded by a $5 million capital allocation from the New York City Council’s Brooklyn Delegation, which also covered the purchase of new medical equipment, including stretchers, portable EKG machines, telemetry monitors, vital sign paraphernalia and ventilators.

Thursday’s ribbon-cutting at Woodhull’s newly renovated Emergency Department.
Photo courtesy NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull

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LOWE’S AND FEMA PARTNER ON STORM-DAMAGE HELP: FEMA has teamed with Lowe’s stores to provide free information and tips on how to make homes that have been damaged by natural disasters stronger and safer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has announced. FEMA specialists are stationed at the Lowe’s store at 118 2nd Ave. in Gowanus through Saturday, October 16, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. to provide resources, offer tips, and answer questions about making improvements for hazard-resistant homes.

Free reference books will also be made available.

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NYU TANDON ENGINEERS DESIGN FLOODNET: A public/private consortium including NYU Tandon, researchers at the City University of New York (CUNY) and NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate Resiliency and Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer plans to expand a pilot project of flood sensors citywide. These hyperlocal flood sensors, already in use in the Gowanus neighborhood as part of the pilot, support real-time flood monitoring, flood response, and urban resilience planning in NYC. The three sensors are deployed in areas of Gowanus that are at risk of stormwater flooding recorded flash floods in Gowanus in real-time and with high resolution, providing a rich data set including flood depth and profile over time.

The FloodNet alert system generates emails and Telegram app messages at the detection of a flood that exceeds 3 inches, and there are early indications that these warnings were received prior to warnings from other city detection systems.

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CB7 DISCUSSES GANGS, TRAFFIC SAFETY ON MONDAY: Community Board 7’s Public Safety Committee is prepared to discuss quality-of-life issues at its Zoom meeting this Monday, Oct. 18. (Contact CB7’s website for link; meeting also accessible on YouTube.) Foremost among these will be a discussion of gang activity in the neighborhood, a shooting on 46th St., the use of bicycles, motorized bikes and scooters in bike lanes and on sidewalks, and problems with parking and double parking along 5th Ave.

There will be an opportunity for a Virtual Meet and Greet with Captain Castro and the 72nd Precinct Community Affairs Officers for the area, which includes Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace.

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