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23 Oct 2025 — 5 min read

The Nibble

👉 “Brooklyn’s Energy Bills: The Real G Train of Surprises”

Civic Spotlight:

👉 NYC 2025 Ballot Proposals — The Snackable Guide

👉 FJCC Recommended Candidates

📌 What's up

🍿 The Nibble 📰

🌆💸 “Brooklyn’s Energy Bills: The Real G Train of Surprises”

Brooklynites know delays, detours, and surprise costs — but now our energy bills are pulling a full-on G train move: unpredictable, exhausting, and definitely not on schedule. 🚇⚡ At a State Senate hearing last week, lawmakers grilled utilities over why bills from Marine Park to Williamsburg keep climbing faster than rent-controlled nostalgia apartments.

Advocates spilled that the so-called “public” process of setting rates is actually more secretive than your grandma’s rugelach recipe. 🥧 Utilities call the shots behind closed doors, deciding when, where, and how the negotiations happen. Neighborhood groups from Kensington, Flatbush, and Brighton Beach barely get a seat at the table — unless they can lawyer up like it’s an episode of Suits: ConEd Edition. 👔📂

The result? Brooklyn residents open their bills and feel like they just got hustled at Coney Island’s boardwalk games. 🎡 One month it’s “manageable,” the next it’s “do I sell my Mets tickets or the family heirlooms?” Utility execs swear secrecy helps create “positive outcomes,” but locals know the only positive outcome would be seeing a smaller number on the bottom line. Until reforms come, the real power struggle in Brooklyn isn’t over bike lanes or bagels — it’s between your wallet and the electric company. 💡💳

🗽 Civic Spotlight: Keeping You Informed🗽

🗳️ NYC 2025 Ballot Proposals — The Snackable Guide 🍎🗽

Ready to be the hero of your block? Cape not required—just a ballot! 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️ This year you’ll see six proposals: one statewide tweak and five NYC Charter upgrades. In plain English: Proposal 1 is about the state constitution (think: Adirondacks + Olympic Sports Complex 🏔️🎿), while Proposals 2–6 are NYC tune-ups dreamed up by the Charter Revision Commission after public hearings (faster affordable housing, tidier reviews, a grown-up digital city map, and syncing local elections with presidential years so more people actually vote 📈🗳️).

Here’s the vibe in one breath:
#2 speeds up affordable housing where we need it most 🏗️💨; #3 trims red tape for modest housing & resilience projects 🌧️🔧; #4 creates an Affordable Housing Appeals Board (Mayor + Council Speaker + Borough Prez) to overrule Council on certain projects with a 2–1 vote 🧑‍⚖️🏛️; #5 gives NYC a single, modern Digital City Map 🗺️💻; #6 moves city elections to presidential years for bigger turnout 🇺🇸📅. And #1? Allow ski-trail expansion at the Olympic Sports Complex—paired with 2,500 new acres of protected Adirondack forest 🌲↔️⛷️.

🗓️ Key Dates & How to Vote

Early Voting: Saturday, October 25 → Sunday, November 2
Election Day: Tuesday, November 4
Voter Registration Deadline: Saturday, October 25
Early Mail Ballot Request Deadline: Saturday, October 25 (online or by mail)
Find your Early Voting site: 👉 findmypollsite.vote.nyc

Bottom line: read up, pick your “Yes/No,” and make your plan. Democracy runs better when you do. 🗳️✨

FJCC Recommended Candidates

Mayor – Andrew Cuomo

Comptroller – Mark Levine

District Attorney – Eric Gonzalez

Boro President – Antonio Reynoso

If you live in City Council:

District 43 – Susan Zuhang

District 44 – Simcha Felder

District 45 – Farah Louis

District 46 – Mercedes Narcisse

District 48 – Inna Vernikov

Vote NO to ALL referendum propositions

🤔What's up👀

🎬 Events 👋

Sunday 10/26

Tuesday 10/28

Girls Sewing class
Starts on Tuesday, October 28 6:30-7:30 PM | JCC of Marine Park (Simcha Hall) | Starts at $268.61 | To purchase tickets please click here

Monday 11/3

Tuesday 11/4

Creating Stable and Enduring Marriages: Maximizing the Impact of Proven Approaches for the Frum Community | Live or virtual | Ohel Jaffa Family Campus
1268 E 14th street, 3rd Floor | 7:30 pm | for more info click here

🎤Lectures 🎤

Thursday 10/23

The Chaverim Guy Who keeps Tire Air Caps | Rav Daniel Osher Kleinman | Agudath Israel Bais Binyomin | 2913 Avenue L | 8:30 pm

Shabbos 10/25

👩For women only 👩 | Rabbi Ozer Alport | Young Israel of Midwood | 1694 Ocean Ave | 4:30 pm

Sunday 10/26

Automatic Lights, Hot Water, etc. and other “Psik Raisha” Questions on Shabbos | Rav Zev Smith | Agudath Israel Bais Binyomin | 2913 Avenue L | 8:30pm

Thursday 10/30

Kidney Donations in Halacha | Rav Daniel Osher Kleinman | Agudath Israel Bais Binyomin | 2913 Avenue L | 8:30 pm

⌛Ongoing🗓️

Monday’s & Wednesday’s

HaRav Kahn Shlita | Shiur on Tehillim with Medrash and Meforshim | 10:40am | Kol Halashon 718-906-6400 press star (*) | Live stream click here.

Thursday’s

Parsha In-Depth with Meforshim | Rav Yerachmiel Frankel | Knesses Bais Avigdor | 1720 Avenue J (Btw E17 & E18) | 11:30 am

📖Learning and Cholent🍲😋 | Bet Shaul U'Miriam | 2208 Ave. S | 8:00-10:00pm🏆

📜 Mishmar | Agudah of Madison | 2122 Ave. S (Ave S & East 22) | 10:00 pm

📖Parsha Ha’Shavua | Rabbi Frand | Y.I. of Midwood | 1694 Ocean Ave | 9:00 pm

Motzei Shabbos

Navi Shiur - Sefer Daniel| Rabbi Yisroel Reisman | Ahi Ezer Cong | Corner Ocean Parkway & Ave S | 9:00 pm

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🗳️ Voting Begins! Make Your Voice Heard!🗳️

The J3M Report

🍿 The Nibble 📰

🌆💸 “Brooklyn’s Energy Bills: The Real G Train of Surprises”