This Week in Ditmas Park

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In case you missed anything this week, here’s a recap:

• Are we Prospect Park’s awkward sister, turned beautiful swan?

• The NYPD is looking for a missing senior, 90-year-old Eugene Favrance.

• Stolen headlights, a stabbing with a pencil, and more local crimes.

• A house fire on Westminster Rad.

• Bike racks as jungle gym.

• Preparing kids for a safe commute when school’s back in session.

• Postcards were the text messages of the 1910s.

• Things you’ll find on Newkirk Plaza: pizza, jerk chicken, and questionable pills.

• A peek inside Ditmas Fitness–anyone stop by this weekend to check it out?

• So many commercial spaces available on just one block of Cortelyou.

• Crummy week for evening commutes.

• Neighbor Elisa Chavez got organized on a television show.

• The persistent problems of Coney Island Avenue.

• Anyone been into the New Coffee House yet?

• Several people shared stories about where they were during the 2003 blackout.

• Missed bike connection.

• Where nothern catalpa trees are in the area, and what they’re used for.

• A new nail salon opened on Foster Ave.

• Another appearance of Westminster Road on an episode of Louie.

• Finally, check out the art of two roommates, Maritsa Patrinos and Melissa Ling, before you see it in person at the GO open studios.