Editor of Ditmas Park Corner
The Church Avenue BID [https://www.churchavenue.org/] is holding its final sidewalk sales event of the year this Friday, October 17 through Sunday, October 19, from 10am to 6pm each day. During the three-day event, merchants along Church Avenue will offer shoppers “extreme savings and fabulous deals on fashion,
There have been at least two car break-ins on E. 18th Street in recent days, including one that happened between Beverley and Cortelyou and the other between Cortelyou and Dorchester, neighbor Nina told us. Nina reported that the top of her convertible was cut into, and her car was broken
community supported agriculture
Registration is now open for the Kensington/Windsor Terrace CSA [http://kwtcsa.blogspot.com/], which allows neighbors to get six months worth of fresh vegetables, eggs, meat, and more direct from Long Island’s Garden of Eve Farm [http://www.gardenofevefarm.com/]. You pay in advance, and then during a
The Farm at Miller's Crossing
The Flatbush Farm Share [http://flatbushfarmshare.wordpress.com/] let us know its CSA (community supported agriculture) is taking new members for the winter season. You can sign up here [http://www.tfaforms.com/346774] if you’re interested in being part of the FFS winter share, which includes six pick-ups
spiders
How Ditmas Park does Halloween, as photographed by so.say.we.all [http://instagram.com/p/uEYNs7JoJs/?modal=true]. Have a favorite house decked out for All Hallow’s Eve? You can send photos of them to us, and we’ll post them to to the blog! Share photos with
Alexis Pastuhov
Happy Monday! This week, you can go to a comedy show at Bar Chord tonight, learn how to save affordable housing in our neighborhood at an Equality for Flatbush meeting [/blog/events/learn-fight-affordable-housing-equality-flatbush-meeting-tomorrow-night] , get involved in how tax dollars are spent in our neighborhood at Councilman Jumaane Williams’ participatory budget
What would you like to see funded in our neighborhood? Something for the libraries? The schools? Transportation? If you live in the district, you’ll be able to vote on how to allocate about $1 million in capital funding in our area (as part of a program called participatory budgeting
72nd precinct
Where are some of the most dangerous intersections in Windsor Terrace? What do you think could be done to make them safer? Do you want to see more crosswalks? Slow zones? Stop signs? Something else? You’ll be able to voice your opinions on what would make neighborhood streets safer
Happy Monday! For the zillionth week in a row, the Brighton Beach-bound B is running local and the Manhattan-bound Q is running express, on Wednesday through Friday. Details via the MTA [http://travel.mtanyct.info/serviceadvisory/default.aspx]: Starting Wednesday: > Brighton Beach-bound B trains run local from Prospect Park
Happy Monday! The subways don’t look bad in our neighborhood this week, though there are some changes if you’re traveling between Avenue X and Coney Island, on the F in Queens, or on the G between Court Square and Bedford-Nostrand Avenues. Details via the MTA [http://travel.mtanyct.
anti-gentrification
Equality for Flatbush [http://equalityforflatbush.tumblr.com/], a grassroots organization working to preserve affordable housing and prevent the displacement of neighbors from their longtime homes, as well as on a variety of other social justice initiatives, is holding its next meeting tomorrow, October 14, at the Flatbush Library [http://www.
friends of ps 217
The Friends of PS 217 [http://ps217brooklyn.org/] let us know that they’re participating in the Tea Collection’s School Days program [http://www.teapassport.com/] from today through Sunday, October 19 – which means the non-profit that supports our neighborhood school will receive 20 percent of the proceeds from