Editor of Ditmas Park Corner
When it seems like the world is one unending sheet of cold rain, where do you go when you just can’t spend another afternoon holed up in your apartment? If your answer is Brooklyn Banya [http://brooklynbanya.com/] (602 Coney Island Avenue between Beverley Road and Avenue C), you
missing dog
Updated 3:17pm: Great news! Lex has been found. Neighbor Val wrote to us that, “an amazing neighbor named Katie found him.We bumped into each other while I was putting up lost dog signs and she had him on a little ribbon leash and had signs in her bag
If you’ve been wondering whether PS 230 [http://www.ps230.org/] is the right fit for your child, tomorrow and February 6 are good times to find out! PS 230 will hold kindergarten open houses on Tuesday, January 20, and Friday, February 6 from 9am-10:30am in the multimedia
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Photo via R.I.P. Gerard ‘Geezy’ Grant [https://www.facebook.com/1451169265095198/photos/pb.1451169265095198.-2207520000.1421427517./1529712127240911/?type=3&theater] This past Sunday at 4:12am, Glenda Martin-Grant will have spent a full year without one of the three sons she raised on her own [http://pix11.
30 Lafayette Avenue
First, there’s the horse and a pair of legs drowning in leather fringe. The camera pans out and, in slow motion, you glimpse a man grimacing as he navigates a bucking bronco, riders with lassos merging rope with air, and strands of silver and balloons before the words flash
Church Avenue and Ocean Avenue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BWVXxy62zs Police said two teenage girls tried to steal an 80-year-old woman’s purse in a building near Ocean and Church Avenues Friday afternoon, and the NYPD is asking the public to help them identify the perpetrators captured by surveillance footage. Photo via the
70th Precinct E. 23rd Street
Photo via li5aluna [http://instagram.com/p/xxQXT_yc3u/?modal=true]. Want to learn more about the landmarked Sears Roebuck tower in our neighborhood? Go here [/blog/history/sears-is-now-a-landmark]!To keep up with all the news from the neighborhood, like us on Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/DitmasParkCorner], follow us
historical sign
Guess you hope not to be number 101? Photo by viewfromabroad [http://instagram.com/p/x5ri-9tJmL/?modal=true]. Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmaspark on Instagram, and we’ll post them
Brooklyn District Attorney
A 22-year-old man has been convicted of shooting and killing an unarmed stranger after an argument at a neighborhood deli in March 2013 [/blog/crime/28-year-old-man-shot-and-killed-on-east-23rd-street] and could spend the rest of his life in prison once he’s sentenced, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson said today. Justin Sarkodie, who
Lit at Lark
Photo via Lit at Lark [https://www.facebook.com/litatlark/photos/pb.528192820587606.-2207520000.1410484209./568800813193473/?type=3&the] Looking for something to do this weekend? How about spending quality literary time with some of the city’s best poets? Lit at Lark [https://www.facebook.com/events/1601906723365745/
Geezy Grant
Photo via R.I.P. Gerard ‘Geezy’ Grant [https://www.facebook.com/1451169265095198/photos/pb.1451169265095198.-2207520000.1421427517./1529712127240911/?type=3&theater] This Sunday at 4:12 am, Glenda Martin-Grant will have spent a full year without one of the three sons she raised on her own [http://pix11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI2eURyJgyQ&feature=youtu.be After a man held a knife to a livery cab driver’s throat during a robbery at 43rd Street and 8th Avenue early Thursday morning, police are asking the public to help them identify and locate the individual captured