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🌱 Flatbush Man Dies In Bus Crash + NYPD Shoot At E. Flatbush Car

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Hey, Ditmas Park-Flatbush! Let's get you started this Saturday with everything you need to know going on today in town.


First, today's weather:

Some sun, then clouds. High: 44 Low: 41.


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

  1. Police officers shot at a car that had almost crashed into them in East Flatbush on Thursday night, while in the process of investigating a suspected stolen vehicle. A 23-year-old is now detained in relation to the incident. (New York City Path)
  2. The online company DoorDash is helping a kosher soup kitchen, Masbia, in Borough Park and Flatbush, by delivering thousands of meals to food-insecure Brooklynites. (JTA News - Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
  3. A Flatbush property owner, Victoria Stennett, was given a one month extension before a bank accused of being a predatory lender forecloses on her home. Stennett is hoping to convince the bank's board of directors to reverse their current position. (Brooklyn Reader)
  4. A 72-year-old Flatbush man died yesterday, after an MTA bus ran over his foot on February 18th at the intersection of Avenue H and Nostrand. (WPIX 11 New York)

Today in Ditmas Park-Flatbush:

  • Free Reuse Event Comes to Sheepshead Bay, 3679 Nostrand Ave. (12:00 PM)
  • Blippi The Musical at Kings Theater (2:00 PM)
  • IN-PULSE Dance and Music festival, 510 Flatbush Avenue (4:00 PM)

From my notebook:

  • Rita Joseph emphasized her interest in increasing the role of parents in educational policy-making at a state hearing. (Twitter)
  • Anti-Semitic hate crimes accounted for 50% of all hate crimes in the city last month, according to the NYPD. (New York City Patch)
  • 70th precinct officers are recruiting community members to take the NYPD officer exam this month. (Twitter)

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Dashiell Allen

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