This Week In Ditmas Park

This week in Ditmas Park, readers weighed in on the complicated — and historic — relationship between Flatbush and Ditmas Park, local elected officials pushed City Hall to bring back Express F subway service, we got psyched for summer by taking a look at Celebrate Brooklyn’s 2016 line-up, and more.

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

• The historic Flatbush District #1 School, a designated landmark, was torn down by the City.
• Madina’s owners are about to open two new Indian/Pakistani restaurants in our area.
• Freelancers in Ditmas Park and Kensington are getting help from Councilmember Brad Lander in fighting clients who won’t pay.
• The Flatbush Nostrand Junction BID wins a $100,000 grant from the City to transform the area for the better.
• This part of South Brooklyn is being shortchanged on school construction, a new report finds.
• Our very own Cortelyou Library leads the way in using translation service now available in over 100 languages at every Brooklyn public library branch.
• We learn how one local Mom harnesses adaptive design to make life better for her daughter — and other kids with disabilities.
• We join a reader in taking on illegal trash dumping at one corner on Church Avenue.
• The 66th Precinct honors a beloved community member who has passed on, and discusses crime in our area at this month’s community council meeting.
• Two murder cases in Flatbush see resolution: a conviction in a 2013 fatal stabbing of a 26-year-old man, and an arrest in last year’s shooting of a 51-year-old father-of-two.
• The NYPD is hunting for a man who robbed Newkirk Plaza’s Chase Bank branch on Saturday.

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