Make Ditmas Park Green

Amber Ceffalio

Mar 5, 2013 — 1 min read

This Saturday, March 9 is the 32nd Making Brooklyn Bloom at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, where you can check out workshops that include Making Seed Bombs, Resourceful Rooftop Containers, and Save Heirloom Seeds Like a Farmer. The inspiration will take you through the planting season.

Making Brooklyn Bloom is free for anyone — beginning and master gardeners — who shows up with a copy of the brochure. Registration is at 10am. For more information or to preregister, email greenbridge@bbg.org.

Additionally, the Greenest Block in Brooklyn will have an information table at Making Brooklyn Bloom, and you may have an opportunity to sign up your home, business, or block and borough-wide competition. Once you’re signed up, they’ll offer tips and support throughout the growing season. The first lucky 10 community groups registered can take advantage of specialized workshops with GBB.

Last year Ditmas Park won three 1st places in The Greenest Block in Brooklyn competition:

• Coretlyou Road Merchants Association, Commercial
• Friends of Newkirk Plaza, Commercial
• Brooklyn Hearth, Greenest Storefront

We’d love to see Ditmas Park make an equally impressive showing this year.

Bklyner Endorses Brannan for Council District 47

If you want your district to have the best possible representation in the city council right away, you should look beyond politics and pick Justin Brannan, a moderate Democrat.

Should Kagan or Brannan Represent Bay Ridge and Coney Island in City Council?

Ahead of the November 7 local elections, when we get to pick our city council members again, NY1 held a debate Tuesday night (you can watch it here) between the two incumbents in what will be the new District 47 – Ari Kagan, a recent Republican representing current Council District 47,

We’re Not Under a Rock, Mayor Adams, We’re on a Shrinking One

After seven inches of rain punished New York City on Friday, Mayor Eric Adams took almost a whole day to make his first comments about a storm that effectively ground his city, the country’s largest, to a halt. After having seven separate public events without acknowledging the storm, Adams

Streets, Migrants, And More

The weather has turned pleasant and just about every neighborhood in Brooklyn wants you to come out and enjoy all it has to offer — from Atlantic Antic Downtown, 3rd Avenue Fair in Bay Ridge, art crawls in Ditmas Park and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, to lots of literary events to go

Read more

Bklyner Endorses Brannan for Council District 47

Should Kagan or Brannan Represent Bay Ridge and Coney Island in City Council?

We’re Not Under a Rock, Mayor Adams, We’re on a Shrinking One

Streets, Migrants, And More