🌱Marching For CUNY + East Flatbush Officer Accused Of Misconduct

Up and at 'em, Ditmas Park-Flatbush! Let's get you started this Tuesday with everything you need to know going on today in town.

First, today's weather:

Cooler; breezy in the morning. High: 47 Low: 35.

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

1. A 16-year police officer, David Grieco, has cost the city over $1 million in legal settlements, over multiple cases alleging his misappropriate behavior while on the job. Grieco is currently a field intelligence officer in East Flatbush. (New York Daily News)
2. The developer of a building a few blocks away from Brooklyn College, at 1620 New York Avenue, Joel Jacob, has received $23 million in loan financing for the apartment complex. Renderings are available of the new building. (Commercial Observer)
3. Hundreds of SUNY and CUNY students marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, demanding greater funding for New York City and state's public colleges and universities to be included in next year's fiscal budget. The state's budget negotiations are expected to conclude fairly soon, in about three weeks. (amNY)

Today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

• Carnival Tuesdays, at Round 2 Café, 1165 Utica Avenue (6 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Reminder! Applications are open for the city's bigger-than-ever Summer Youth Employment Program. (NYC.gov)
• Brooklyn College is holding a series of events throughout March around cancer research. (Facebook)
• Here's a circuit training class from the Flatbush YMCA. (Facebook)
• Equality for Flatbush is asking for donations to support a Black elder they recently helped to relocate, who was "living in a dangerously abusive living situation," according to the organization. (Instagram)

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