🌱 East Flatbush Cab Driver + Heavy Flooding + Terrace Play

Good morning Flatbush and Ditmas Park! Welcome to the debut edition of Patch's Ditmas Park-Flatbush Daily, a five-minute update on all the day's most important news, events, and general goings-on. I am your host Dashiell Allen, a lifelong New Yorker, and am so excited to represent the community!

First, today's weather:

Strong winds subsiding. High: 59 Low: 48.

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

1. East Flatbush streets saw heavy flooding and trashed piled up by drains on Tuesday, as a Nor'easter passed through the city. (News 12 Brooklyn)
2. Pardeep Singh, the first South Asian contestant on The Bachelorette to receive a "rose," is a New Yorker who started an emergency COVID-19 testing lab in Flatbush in under six weeks during the early days of the pandemic. (Elite Daily)
3. Politicians were arrested on Monday at a protest for NYC taxi drivers, who are demanding medallion debt relief from the city. One taxi driver, Dorothy Leconte, from East Flatbush, said he owes $591,000 in debt. Many drivers are participating in a hunger strike. (New York Daily News)
4. A new affordable housing complex in Brownsville is taking shape, thanks to the work of the Church of God of East Flatbush. The new Ebenezer Plaza development will have 315 so-called affordable units, at between $367 and $1,472 per month. (Brownstoner)

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Today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

• Guided walk through Prospect Park's recent capitol projects (4:30 p.m.)
• "Sip, Puff & Paint" (6 p.m.)
• Terrace Play - a site specific play performed on a terrace in Flatbush, Brooklyn (7:00 PM)

Ditmas Park-Flatbush Patch Notebook

• Stacey Abrams headed to Kings Theater in Flatbush on Monday night. (Twitter)
• Flatbush Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn is advocating for the Public Banking Act to in deeply affordable housing, worker-owned businesses, and more. (Twitter)
• Brooklyn Museum: "On Sunday, November 6, English-language students from the CUNY Language Immersion Program at Queensborough Community College take center stage in our special exhibition Climate in Crisis." (Instagram)
• Equality for Flatbush is in the final days of its Brooklyn-wide mutual aid food drive (Facebook)
• Try out this recorded Pilates class from the Flatbush YMCA (Facebook)

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— Dashiell Allen

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