This Week In Ditmas Park

This week in Ditmas Park, we got to know our community’s very own homegrown music production company, we traveled through time on Church Avenue, we saw the first signs of spring at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the flavors of Mexico City came to Beverley Road, and more.

Here’s a recap of what’s been happening in our neighborhood:

• Long-simmering tensions at Midwood’s P.S. 193 boiled over Wednesday when the school’s principal had a parent arrested.
• The Flatbush community is fighting to save a historic landmark.
• A new arts & culture space — celebrating Flatbush’s Caribbean community — has just opened.
• Our local Bengali community created a beautiful memorial to honor linguistic freedom.
• We found out that a whopping 822 TV show filming permits were issued from 2011 to 2015 for our area.
• We learned that Borough Park, Kensington & Ditmas Park are some of the most crowded neighborhoods In Brooklyn.
• We got the head’s up on a local election that could really matter.
• A Flatbush councilman is calling for a job for every local teen.
• We got to know the NYPD’s updated Compstat system and better understand crime In our community.
• We pondered the impact of those new LED street lights popping up throughout the neighborhood.
• Borough President Adams is honoring an emergency room doctor in East Flatbush dedicated to ending gang violence and two animal lovers who rescued a malnourished dog in Prospect Park.

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