🌱 Parents Want Justice + Terrace Play + Few Toilets In Flatbush

Happy Saturday, neighbors! Here's everything happening today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush. This Sunday is Daylight Savings, marking the start of the season when the sun goes down before 5 p.m. everyday. But that might change depending on recent New York State legislation. Until then, get ready for the darkness.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny. High: 53 Low: 43.

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

1. The parents of murder victims in Brooklyn met with police officials in East Flatbush, asking the city to bring justice and closure to the memory of their children. More than 30 murders across the city remain unsolved. (WABC-TV)
2. If you've been curious about Flatbush-based Terrace Play, it takes a close look at gentrification, focusing on the subtle, often forgotten aspects of what is lost when neighborhoods price out their residents. (Brooklyn Paper)
3. A new map plots all of the publicly available bathrooms in New York City. But there are surprisingly few in the Flatbush/Ditmas Park area – between two and four depending on where one draws the neighborhood boundaries. (Time Out)

This weekend in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

• SATURDAY: Flatbush Junction Farm Stand (9 a.m.)
• SATURDAY: Terrace Play (7 p.m.)
• SUNDAY: Taste of Haiti brunch (1 p.m.)
• SUNDAY: Chaka Khan with special guest Leela James at Kings Theater (7 p.m.)

Ditmas Park-Flatbush Patch Notebook

• Flatbush YMCA presents a dance athletic class with Mellissa. (Facebook)
• NYPD 70th Precinct: "Your Traffic Safety Officers teamed up with NYC DOT at the I/O Flatbush Ave & Nostrand Ave & distribute important #VisionZero safety tips on navigating the city streets during the extended dusk hours to residents of East Flatbush." (Twitter)
• It's hard not to find these Flatbush cats adorable. (Instagram)

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— Dashiell Allen

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