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Hello again Brooklyn! We're bringing you the latest town highlights. Don't miss out, keep going! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • City grants fuel new Brooklyn arts, storytelling, and community-healing programs
  • How a Brooklyn hip-hop event could protect your heart health soon
  • What Brooklyn Democrats risk after defying a judge to pick new boss

Also on today's calendar: We Have Fun: A Free Stand-up Comedy Show and 17 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a paper airplane that can't fly? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 69 and low of 57 degrees.
  • Thursday: Pleasantly warm with sunshine, temps: high: 78, low: 57.
  • Friday: Mostly sunny and delightful, with a high of 72 and low of 56 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. NYC Grants Fund Brooklyn Community Art Programs (patch.com) — Brooklyn residents can look forward to new storytelling and arts programs funded by city grants aimed at strengthening community ties and countering hate. The Brooklyn Festival of Arts and Music will host a free, Indigenous-centered Prospect Park event, while the St. Jean Studio plans migration and memory workshops that could grow into ongoing boroughwide storytelling projects.
   

2. A Brooklyn event uses hip-hop and community conversation to raise awareness of ATTR-CM, an underrecognized cause of heart failure. – [your]NEWS (yournews.com) — A free heart-health event is coming to Weeksville Heritage Center on October 14, using hip-hop and storytelling to help Brooklyn residents recognize signs of ATTR-CM, a lesser-known cause of heart failure. With a focus on Black communities, organizers aim to boost awareness, encourage conversations with doctors, and tie into World Amyloidosis Day later this month.
   

3. New Brooklyn Democratic Party Leader Accused of Deed Theft, Allegedly Worked With Criminally Charged Ex-Judge (internewscast.com) — Brooklyn's Democratic Party is in turmoil after local leaders pushed through Assemblymember Nikki Lucas as new county chair despite a judge's order to halt the vote. A court hearing on October 19 will decide whether party leaders face penalties, while past lawsuits and investigations surrounding key figures continue to cloud the borough's political establishment.
   

4. Fast Buses: Mayor Mamdani Breaks Ground on New Bus Lanes and Safety Upgrades on Brooklyn's Bay Parkway and Cropsey Avenue (nyc.gov) — Bus riders in southern Brooklyn will soon see faster trips and safer crossings as the city redesigns Bay Parkway and Cropsey Avenue with new bus lanes, turn restrictions, and pedestrian islands. The project targets notoriously slow B6 and B82 routes and high-crash intersections, aiming to improve commutes for tens of thousands of daily riders between Midwood, Bensonhurst, and Bath Beach.
   

5. Historic Brooklyn firehouse becomes new home for music program (pix11.com) — A long-vacant historic firehouse in Cobble Hill is being transformed into a $17.8 million permanent home for the Noel Pointer Foundation, bringing free music education and performance space to Brooklyn students. Funded by the city and the Brooklyn borough president, the project will add lesson rooms, studios, a performance hall, and a garden, with construction expected to take about two years.
   

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Ok Brooklyn! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call a paper airplane that can't fly?" — Stationary (Thank you David H. for sending it in!)
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