🌱 COVID Testing Lines Decrease + Edna Pierre-Jacques​ Murder Case

Get on up, Ditmas Park-Flatbush! Let's get you all caught up to start this Tuesday, January 18 off on an informed note. Here's everything worth knowing around Ditmas Park-Flatbush today.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny; breezy, colder. High: 33 Low: 23.

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

1. COVID cases appear to be declining across Brooklyn–and so are the once infamous hours-long lines for a COVID test. Now, the longest wait time at city-run sites is only 30 minutes, including at Kings Hospital in Flatbush. (Brooklyn Paper)
2. New details emerge in the murder case of long-time East Flatbush community leader Edna Pierre-Jacques in 2016, who's basement appears to have been a gambling casino. (Oxygen)
3. Weeksville, in the heart of Crown Heights, became a thriving free Black community in the 1830s. It's now commemorated by the Weeksville Heritage Center. (News One)

Today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

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  NYC Parks Career Fair at 86 Kent Avenue (11 a.m. – 3 p.m.)
• Karaoke/Taco Tuesday at Not Enough Studios, 1532 Nostrand Avenue (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• 🎧🎹 Pianist and professor Jeffrey Biegel at Brooklyn College plays "Reflection of Equality: An Ode to Martin Luther King." (Facebook)
• Here's a Circuit Training class from the Flatbush YMCA! (Facebook)
• State Senator Kevin Parker: wrote an opinion piece about Martin Luther King Jr. Day: "The Liberating Power of Hope." (Politics NY)

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