Editor of Ditmas Park Corner
weekend subway changes
Well, folks, it looks like once we’ve cleared the Friday hurdle, we’re in the clear as far as scheduled changes this weekend. Go crazy, Q travelers! Details via the MTA [http://web.mta.info/service/]: Starting Thursday: > Q trains run every 30 minutes between Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center
Happy Friday! It’s the weekend, which means navigating a world largely absent of the G [/transportation/this-friday-until-september-2-no-g-train-service-north-of-nassau-avenue] and other subway challenges, via the MTA [http://travel.mtanyct.info/serviceadvisory/default.aspx]: Starting Thursday: > No G train service north of Nassau Avenue All times, until 5am Tuesday, September 2
Blue skies over Kensington, as photographed by mfontenot681 [http://instagram.com/p/q2dTidGzew/?modal=true]. Do you have a picture from around the neighborhood? Email it to us at editor@kensingtonbk.com, or tag them #kensingtonbrooklyn on Instagram, and we’ll post it to the blog.
subway platform
Life as we now know it, and remnants of the past, as seen from the Cortelyou subway platform, as photographed by baked__alaska [http://instagram.com/p/rVSTfJEKVn/?modal=true]. Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/
70th Precinct Community Council
Neighbors came out in full force for last night’s 70th Precinct National Night Out Against Crime [/blog/crime/join-the-70th-precinct-for-national-night-out-against-crime-on-august-5] , one of thousands of similar events that take place across the country in an attempt to fight crime by fostering tighter bonds between residents and police. During the free event
bribery
A 34-year-old city police officer from Kensington has been indicted on charges that he contacted a woman who was applying to become an NYPD officer and offered to expedite the hiring process in return for sex, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson said in a press release today [http://www.brooklynda.
Best Western
So, you know all that construction happening on Flatbush Avenue, just across from the Kings Theatre (which, of course, is also undergoing enormous renovation work [/blog/business/diverse-programming-outdoor-space-other-updates-from-the-kings-theatre] )? We’ve just found out that the corner space will become a Gap Factory Store – and the building that’ll house it
bird found
Anyone lost a parakeet? This colorful fella was found just off Prospect Park West on Vanderbilt Street in Windsor Terrace, according to FIDO [https://www.facebook.com/FIDOBrooklyn/photos/a.261617959805.138962.150453569805/10152600700519806/?type=1] (Fellowship in the Interest of Dogs and their Owners). The parakeet is now in
advertising
Deutsch [http://www.deutschinc.com/], a Manhattan-based advertising company, will be filming a “web video interior” for PNC Bank on Marlborough Road, between Albemarle Road and Beverley Road, from 6am to 8pm on both Thursday, August 14 and Friday, August 15 – which means you’ll need to move your car
862 Coney Island Avenue
Fruitilicious Café may appear humble, its tiny inside too small for a table or chairs, but the mom-and-pop juice shop that opened at 862 Coney Island Avenue about a month and a half ago is a place worth the wade through the mugginess of a late afternoon in August. Flanked
animal
One of our neighborhood’s most content greeters, as photographed by jenblossom [http://instagram.com/p/rUVsyfhkL5/?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
crime prevention
A neighbor who was assaulted and robbed at the corner of E 18th Street and Dorchester Road [/blog/crime/neighbor-assaulted-on-october-28-comes-forward-with-full-account] in October was burglarized last month at the same location, prompting the woman, who wished to remain anonymous, to reach out to us and ask what can be done about