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🌱Bill For Holocaust Survivors + Rita Joseph To Help ESL Students
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Happy Tuesday, people of Ditmas Park-Flatbush! Let's get this day started. Here's what's happening today in town.
First, today's weather:
Partly sunny and milder. High: 46 Low: 37.
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Here are the top three stories today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:
- Flatbush and Ditmas Park Councilwoman and former public school teacher Rita Joseph plans to focus her energy on helping English-language learning students, who she says have suffered disproportionately from the pandemic–especially from remote learning, given the difficulties for non-English-speaking parents trying to navigate online resources. (Gothamist)
- Brooklyn State Senator Zellnor Myrie Simcha Eichenstein and Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein introduced a bill that would make it easier for Holocaust survivors who receive reparations from Germany and Austria, to not be charged transaction fees by New York banks. About 20,000 Holocaust survivors live in New York City. (Forward)
- Some small 'mom and pop' landlords in Brooklyn say they are down tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid rent, after their tenants abused the protections provided by the state's eviction moratorium. In some cases they are at risk of losing their properties. While the landlords are generally supportive of the moratorium, they say it had too many loopholes. (Brooklyn Reader)
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Today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:
- Community Board 14 full board meeting, online (6 p.m.)
- Free webinar: Clean Heat and Solar for Low and Moderate Income Households (6:30 p.m.)
From my notebook:
- Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn earned a spot on City & State's list of New York City's top 100 'power players.' Hermelyn has close ties to Mayor Eric Adams. (City & State)
- Conditions are deteriorating at Brooklyn College, according to Professor Alex Vitale, who reports a collapsed ceiling in the lab next to his office. (Twitter)
- Former public school teacher Rita Joseph chaired her first meeting of the City Council committee on education yesterday. (Twitter)
- Democratic Socialist David Alexis was endorsed by the Working Families Party in his bid against State Senator Kevin Parker. (Twitter)
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