Editor of Ditmas Park Corner
Amalgamated Bank
A sample version of the city’s new ID card for which all New York residents are now able to apply. Photo via IDNYC [https://www.facebook.com/332355410282669/photos/pb.332355410282669.-2207520000.1421086229./338113149706895/?type=3&theater] .Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito launched
72nd precinct
Neighbors packed a room in PS 130 for a meeting with DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg.For parents and other neighbors who say they frequently feel as though their lives are at stake while navigating area roads fraught with short crossing times, speeding cars, unsafe turns, and more, the major safety
City Councilmember Robert Cornegy
Photo courtesy of IDNYC [http://www.nyc.gov/IDNYC].Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito launched the country’s largest municipal identification program [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/021-15/mayor-bill-de-blasio-council-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-launch-idnyc-country-s-most] this morning – and residents from all five boroughs can now apply for an ID card
Farragut
A South Midwood woman was robbed at gunpoint while on East 23rd Street, between Farragut Road and Foster Avenue, around 5:45 pm Friday evening, according to information that neighbor Morris Gindi passed on from the area’s police liaison, Monica Beyer. Fortunately, the woman, who had been walking home
Mohammad Naiem Uddin
Neighbors packed a room in PS 130 for a meeting with DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg.For parents and other neighbors who say they frequently feel as though their lives are at stake while navigating area roads fraught with short crossing times, speeding cars, unsafe turns, and more, the major safety
Bally's Total Fitness
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Parade Grounds
Many thanks to neighbor Lou Howort, a photographer who lives in Ditmas Park, for sending us this photo of the Parade Grounds looking gorgeous with its perfect post-snow sky! Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner]
compost
[https://www.facebook.com/compostforbrooklyn/photos/pb.333868227728.-2207520000.1420815992./10151630067957729/?type=3&theater] Photo via Compost for Brooklyn [https://www.facebook.com/compostforbrooklyn/photos/pb.333868227728.-2207520000.1420815992./10151630067957729/?type=3&theater] If you’re looking for a place to get rid of your food scraps, Compost
Visions Bar
Anyone want to buy a bar? Visions Restaurant and Bar [https://www.facebook.com/visionscocktaillounge] (752 Coney Island Avenue) is now for sale, the manager let us know. The current owner, who has owned Visions for more than a decade, is selling the business for $75,000. The new proprietor
Studio 1203
[https://www.facebook.com/aldenmoves/photos/pb.903953452951498.-2207520000.1420828997./933195480027295/?type=3&theater] Photo via Alden Moves [https://www.facebook.com/aldenmoves/photos/pb.903953452951498.-2207520000.1420828997./933195480027295/?type=3&theater] We have exciting news! Alden LaPaglia, the founder and owner of Alden Moves Dance Theater [http:
Thankfully, it looks like this morning’s snow is over, but neighbors were not happy with unplowed roads that left many of us with long commutes and slippery conditions on our neighborhood streets. In the KensingtonBK Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/KensingtonBrooklyn/], one neighbor wrote that it took
business for sale
Anyone want to buy a bar? Visions Restaurant and Bar [https://www.facebook.com/visionscocktaillounge] (752 Coney Island Avenue) is now for sale, the manager let us know. The current owner, who has owned Visions for more than a decade, is selling the business for $75,000. The new proprietor