🌱 Massive Kensington Fire + Adams Ditches Kade Lewin's Funeral

Get on up, Ditmas Park-Flatbush! Let's get this Friday started off right. Here's everything you need to know about what's happening around town today.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and milder. High: 66 Low: 48.

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

1. A three-alarm fire struck a building at East 9th Street and Cortelyou Road in Kensington on Thursday morning, injuring seven people, all of whom refused medical attention on the spot. This is the second major fire to occur on that street in a month. One neighbor described the blaze as looking like "something out of a movie." (Brooklyn Paper)
2. Flatbush Councilwoman Rita Joseph organized a press conference on Wednesday, calling on the Department of Education to create an office dedicated to the unique needs of school children in foster care. She herself has been a foster parent in the past. (New York Post)
3. Mayor Adams was ten minutes away from the funeral service for 12-year-old Kade Lewin on Wednesday, before realizing he had a prior conflict. Instead, he held a meeting with civil rights leaders about gun violence. (New York City Patch)
4. The Brooklyn Democratic Party and a new party, the New Kings Democrats, are locked in a "war" of sorts, with candidates and elected officials from each party challenging their opponents' petition signatures, in an attempt to disqualify them from the ballot. Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, who represents Flatbush, has herself challenged several candidates in the neighboring 44th district. (Politics NY)

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Today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

• Wyckoff Farm Earth Day Service Day - The Wyckoff House Museum (12:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• Haitian Americans Unite For Progress (HAUP) is hosting a day of action against intimate partner violence in Flatbush on Saturday. (Twitter)
• Here's five new houses on the market in Flatbush and Ditmas Park. (Ditmas Park-Flatbush Patch)
• Here's a Hatha Yoga class from the Flatbush YMCA! (Facebook)

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