🌱 Flatbush Ave Renamed + Anti-Semitism + Charter School Conflict

Get on up, Ditmas Park-Flatbush! Here's everything you need to know to get this day started. Here's everything you need to know today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 60 Low: 49.

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

1. A portion of Flatbush Avenue passing through Little Haiti is going to be officially named Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Boulevard, after the Haitian founder of the city of Chicago. A ceremony will take place on November 14. (Caribbean and Latin America Daily News - News Americas)
2. An unidentified man's anti-Semitic remarks towards a woman were captured by a security camera in Flatbush. According to NYPD reports of anti-Semetic hate crimes have increased by 50% in the past year. (Daily Mail)
3. There's a new so-called-affordable housing lottery on Rogers Avenue in Flatbush, where eight units are being sold for people or families making over $67,200. (New York YIMBY)
4. JOKRS, Gorrillas, and Fridge No More–those are the names of three new grocery delivery apps making their way around New York City in recent months. The apps allow customers to support local businesses.(Brownstoner)
5. Success Academy, New York City's largest network of charter schools, says that the city's department of education is preventing it from incorporating a new high school into the site of its Ditmas Park middle school. The city's alternative location, school officials say, is far inferior. (New York Post )

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Today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

• SAT/PSAT - Cultural Academy-Arts and Sciences (All day)
• FLAVA R&B Thursday (6:00 p.m.)
• Terrace Play - a site specific play performed on a terrace in Flatbush, Brooklyn (7:00 p.m.)
• Game of {BLANKS} Halloween Spooktacular- a "hilarious interactive Mad Libs game show" at The Nest Brooklyn (8:00 p.m.)

Ditmas Park-Flatbush Patch Notebook

• Center for Brooklyn History's photo of the day features Flatbush Ave's extension into south Brooklyn during the 1920s, when the area was largely unpopulated. (Facebook)
• Wikipedia's holding a competition for the prettiest photos of Prospect Park. Submit yours and you could win $150. (NYC Patch)
• Here's some photos of Stacey Abrams Tuesday night at Kings Theater. (Twitter)
• Stop by the Flatbush Food co-op on Halloween for "candy and more." (Twitter)

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