🔥 זֹאת חֲנוּכָּה 🕎
The Nibble
📰 Five-Alarm Blaze Ravages Boro Park Matzah Bakery Overnight
📰Hera to the Rescue! AI, Medicare & Super-Heroes for NYC Seniors
Civic Spotlight:
🗽 Zoning, But Make It Make Sense: NYC Drops the 2025 Zoning Handbook
📌 What's up
🍿 The Nibble 📰
Please note: Alternate side parking regulations will be is suspended for snow removal today, December 17. Parking meters will remain in effect.
Five-Alarm Blaze Ravages Boro Park Matzah Bakery Overnight
A massive five-alarm fire tore through the Boro Park Matzah Bakery on 36th Street near 13th Avenue around 2 a.m. Wednesday, sending towering flames and thick smoke into the night sky and triggering a large-scale FDNY response. Heavy fire conditions were visible from blocks away as emergency personnel rushed to the scene.
The fire was initially declared under control around 5:30 a.m., but later rekindled, prompting renewed emergency operations. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Residents are urged to avoid the area while emergency crews continue their work.
👵💻 Hera to the Rescue! AI, Medicare & Super-Heroes for NYC Seniors 🦸♀️🗽
Meet Hera, the new tech startup trying to save New Yorkers from the ultimate nightmare: spending hours on hold with Medicare while juggling aging parents, jobs, kids, and sanity 😵💫📞. Hera combines AI 🤖, real-life social workers 🧠, and new Medicare rules to make geriatric care affordable for the long-ignored “forgotten middle class” 💔➡️❤️. Think: help finding in-home aides, meds delivered in neat little blister packs 💊📦, benefits unlocked that nobody knew existed (hello aquatic therapy 🏊♂️💦), and someone else fighting the bureaucracy so you don’t have to.
Their secret weapon? A squad of expert care managers called “Heroes” 🦸♂️🦸♀️—plus an AI system that does the annoying stuff, like sitting on hold with Medicaid for hours ⏳😤, while humans focus on actual human care. Most families pay little to nothing out-of-pocket 💸🙌, and everyone gets back the one thing you can’t bill Medicare for: time with your parents ❤️👨👩👧. In a city where aging is inevitable but navigating care shouldn’t be, Hera is proving that sometimes the real innovation isn’t flashy tech—it’s making life easier when it matters most 🌆
For more info click here
🗽 Civic Spotlight: Keeping You Informed🗽
📘🏙️✨ Zoning, But Make It Make Sense: NYC Drops the 2025 Zoning Handbook 😂🗺️📐
After 60 years of zoning rules that felt like they were written in ancient runes 📜😵💫, the NYC Department of City Planning has finally said: let’s translate this into human. Enter the 2025 NYC Zoning Handbook 🎉—a freshly updated, actually-readable guide to how land use works in this beautiful, chaotic city 🗽💥. Following City of Yes (the biggest zoning rewrite since 1961 🤯), this handbook is basically the Rosetta Stone of zoning 🪨📖. According to Director Dan Garodnick, it’s packed with plain English, real-life examples, charts, and maps 🗺️📊—so planners, architects, small businesses, and zoning-curious New Yorkers can finally answer the age-old question: “Wait… can they build that here?” 🏗️👀
Inside you’ll find brand-new zoning buzzwords like Ancillary Dwelling Units (aka “yes, you can add that little apartment” 🏠➕), R11 & R12 high-density housing zones 🏢🏢, Universal Affordability Preference (more homes if they stay affordable 🙌❤️), and Energy Infrastructure Equipment (solar panels and batteries officially getting zoning respect ☀️🔋✨). The handbook walks you block-by-block 🧭, explains bulk, use, and parking without inducing a nap 💤, and helps unlock 82,000 new homes across all five boroughs 🏘️🏙️🏡. Best part? You can buy a hard copy for $25 (or just admire it online) right here 👉 💳📦📚
Zoning: still serious business 😐—but now friendlier, clearer, and way less scary 😄🎉
🤔What's up👀
🎬 Events 👋
Sunday 12/21
Knesses Bais Avigdor | 1720 Avenue J
👩For women only 👩
Monday 12/21
Thursday, 12/25 through Thursday 1/1
The annual One Week Kollel/ Yarchei Kallah of Flatbush | The topic inyanim of Purim in Mesechta Megilla | Tomchei Torah, 1966 Ocean Ave. (between Ave, N & Ave. O) | Please call to register (or for more information) 718-998-5822 or email: draaronmandel@aol.com
Motzei Shabbos 12/27, 1/3, 1/10 and 1/17
🎤Lectures 🎤
Thursday 12/18
Why To Stay Home On Chanuka| Rav Daniel Osher Kleinman | Agudath Israel Bais Binyomin | 2913 Avenue L | 8:30 pm
Shabbos 12/20
👩For women only 👩 | Rebetzin Esther Reisman| Young Israel of Midwood | 1694 Ocean Ave | 3:15 pm
Sunday, 12/21
The Status of “Bain Hashmashos” – when Shabbos Begins and End | Rav Zev Smith | Agudath Israel Bais Binyomin 2913 Avenue L (off Nostrand Ave) | 8;30 pm
Thursday 12/25
Purchasing a Property which has an Existing Debt| 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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