🌱 The City's 'Worst Landlords' + Brooklyn College Upward Mobility

Happy Monday, neighbors! Here's what's going on around Ditmas Park-Flatbush today.

First, today's weather:

Plenty of sunshine. High: 38 Low: 32.

Here are the top stories in Ditmas Park-Flatbush today:

1. The Public Advocate's office just released the official list of the city's "worst landlords" in 2021. As usual, NYCHA takes the first prize, but lots of other Flatbush and Ditmas Park landlords made the list–including Michael Niamonitakis and David Schorr. The list is determined based on the number of open Housing and Preservation Development (HPD) violations a building has received. Look at an interactive map of the whole city here. (BK Reader)
2. Flatbush's own Brooklyn College topped the charts this year for increasing the upward socio-economic mobility of its student body, according to a study. The CUNY College ranked 9 out of 1,549 four-year institutions nationwide. (Brooklyn Eagle)
3. Mayor-elect Eric Adams had planned to hold his inauguration inside the historic Kings Theater in Flatbush. But with the sudden rise in COVID cases across the city his team isn't so sure about those plans anymore. Some experts think that his decision to go ahead with the event as planned, or to hold it outdoors or virtually, would set a precedent for his approach to the pandemic more broadly–how will he balance "reopening" the city with public health and safety? (Gothamist)

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Today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

• Pajama "pop-up shop" party at 788 Rogers Ave (2 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• 5,000 people showed up for the funeral of the 20-year-old Yemeni Flatbush bodega worker Fadhl Moosa who was killed on Tuesday. The funeral took place in Bensonhurst Park. (Twitter)
• You now have until January 4th to apply for FEMA relief money for damages caused by Hurricane Ida. (Twitter)
• Lots of Flatbush neighbors have been proposing ideas for the upcoming year's city budget. Read some of their thoughts–and submit your own. Here's one that caught my attention: Austin Tooker advocated for more trees to be planted along Nostrand and Rogers Avenues, citing high asthma rates in the community. (NYC Civic Engagement Commission)

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— Dashiell Allen