🌱 Flatbush Celebrates Hanukkah + Yvette Clarke On Omicron Variant

Get on up, Ditmas Park-Flatbush! Here's everything you need to know to get this Monday started off right.

First, today's weather:

Warmer with a passing shower. High: 64 Low: 36.

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

1. Last week Flatbush and East Flatbush's Jewish communities celebrated Hanukkah by lighting a Menorah outside the SUNY Downstate Medical Center with Rabbi Yitzchok Holtzman and elected officials. (COLlive - Chabad News)
2. Mayor-elect Eric Adams just released the 800-people-long list of his complete Mayoral transition team, which includes Vicki Schneps, the publisher of the paper amNY/Metro, as well as lobbyists and elected officials. See the full list here. Also on the list is Flatbush Assemblymember and Brooklyn Dem. party boss Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn. (Gothamist)
3. It's almost Santa Con, one of many New Yorker's most dreaded (or revered) days when thousands of people dress up as Santa to go bar-hopping. On a related note, 311 data suggests that noise complaints about the city's bars and restaurants are back to pre-pandemic 2019 levels. (NYC Patch)
4. Flatbush and Ditmas Park Representative Yvette Clarke spoke on the news about the rise of the Omicron variant and the Biden administration's Build Back Better infrastructure bill. (Pix11)

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Today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

• Kompa Mondays (7 p.m.)
• Ladies night at Eleven07 Lounge (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Brooklyn Museum: "We’d be remiss not to do a #mybkm pup roundup before the end of the year! Swipe for some quality canine content." (Instagram)
• Prospect Park: "As part of Prospect Park Alliance’s Re:New Initiative to restore the park, 13 incredible volunteers raked leaves along the ravine path, collected 78 bags of leaves, and removed debris!" (Instagram)
• Friday was World Aids Day 2021 and the Caribbean Equality Project held a celebration outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall. (Twitter)

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