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🌱 Massive Gang Takedown + Clean Energy + Thousands Of Frozen Turkeys

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Hello again, friends! I'm back with your new edition of the Brooklyn Daily, fresh off the presses. Let's get this Wednesday started off right, with a quick review of the most important things going on in town. In this issue, you'll find news about:

  • 32 charged in concluded Brooklyn gang takedown
  • Con Ed is making clean energy moves, and fast!
  • Huge turkey giveaway brings Thanksgiving to BK 🦃❤️

But first, today's weather:

🌧 Breezy; morning rain. High: 54 Low: 37.

Here are the top stories in Brooklyn today:

1. Brooklyn DA just announced a massive 32-charge gang takedown. Yesterday, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez concluded a longtime investigation into two warring rival Brownsville gangs. The "successful takedown" resulted in 32 charged suspects on numerous counts of violence, including 19 shootings, one of which left a 3-year-old child wounded. Many of these violent acts, which occurred in areas with libraries, multiple schools, parks, NYCHA developments, and apartment buildings, were documented by video surveillance footage.

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2. Con Edison's 'Reliable Clean City' project is moving fast — half of the Queen's leg has been completed, and construction is underway in Brooklyn and Staten Island. The three-part infrastructure upgrade will eventually allow NYC's largest investor-owned energy supplier to retire high-polluting fossil fuel plants. The project is halfway done in Queens and is promised to finish by the end of the year. Con Ed expects to complete the two other legs by 2025, projects that will connect power plants in Gowanus, Park Slope, and Staten Island. Together, the roughly $800 million projects will add about 900 megawatts of transmission capability in Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. Brooklyn Paper reported that the projects "garnered support from local environmental activism groups," like UPROSE, The Sierra Club, and the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, "who praised the project for creating a pathway for the retirement of peaker plants."

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3. Yesterday the Salvation Army hosted a frozen turkey giveaway in Brooklyn as Thanksgiving in the city draws near. In partnership with CMA CGM Group, the Salvation Army provided thousands of Brooklynites with Thanksgiving turkeys at Bushwick Corps Community Center. The turkey giveaway is part of the organizations' Giving Across America initiative which aims to feed close to 130,000 people this Thanksgiving. Folks were lined up around the block to receive their centerpieces for this year's feast. Find photos at the link.

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4. A brand-new urgent care facility has opened in Downtown Brooklyn, just in time for flu season. +MEDRITE Urgent Care was founded in Brooklyn in 2010, and ever since has become one of the fastest growing health organizations in the country. They've just opened a new urgent care center downtown on Flatbush Avenue which will offer a wide variety of professional health care services for the urgent needs of Brooklyn residents, like minor injuries, burns, wound care, fractures, allergic reactions, acute illnesses and infections. The center will also offer less-urgent care like physical exams, sexual health testing, well-woman exams, vaccinations, and more. The latest bivalent COVID-19 booster is available at +MEDRITE, and the facility's Williamsburg location is hosting its first ever Booster Day on Sunday, Nov. 20.

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Today in Brooklyn:

  • Real Estate Entrepreneur Mixer, 550 Vanderbilt Ave., Today @ 6 p.m. | Details
  • Karaoke Wednesday, Den of Splendor Lounge, Today @ 6 p.m. | Details
  • Green Drinks, Estuary at ONE°15 Brooklyn Marina, Today @ 6 p.m. | Details
  • Cowboy Mouth [A play by Sam Shepard & Patti Smith], The Vino Theater, Today-Nov. 20 | Details
  • Lightscape: [Walking tour light show], Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Today-Jan. 8 | Details

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— Carlie Houser

About me: I'm a recent grad based in Brooklyn, NY. I love to write, run, read, and find new restaurants and venues around the city.

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