Editor of Ditmas Park Corner
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down will perform at Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park on Saturday. Photo via Thao & The Get Down Stay Down [https://www.facebook.com/thaoandthegetdownstaydown/photos/a.468921947618.281097.12984017618/10153546612577619/?type=1&theater] Happy Thursday, everyone! This weekend, you can hear poets
1628 Church Avenue
A neighbor filed a lawsuit against Bobby’s Department Store [http://www.shopbobbys.com/] this week, charging that a manager allegedly broke the jaw of Lucky Michaels [http://luckymichaels.blogspot.com/], an activist well known in the city’s transgender community, during an assault outside the Church Avenue store last
Brooklyn Bark
Photo via Daniel M. Hendricks [https://www.flickr.com/photos/hendricksphotos/3831522489/in/photolist-6Qzy9z-4qS2MN-5dF7W-azmkat-8LJeGQ-8LF9gT-8LJe6U-QVvd3-g5LBG-9vaB-aUbpX6-5Fe3kH-9eacR-nK99rU-acmimk-64CsXL-aJQeEr-crGt1S-8LFbwV-DKac5-3q1WNf-aWn1Jz-6MC32k-4F6U2-5WWKsF-52avnE-9aMNQQ-cKujCW-5qjfE3-71VRaF-a9ZNQ-5fcRZa-d7wCB-5fhf6o-5hYMGB-vnZi8-aCxYTy-2gH8B-6MMXDU-dARaCr-7wEt73-94cBkC-aCvikK-DFtKe-DFtK6-vtzzE-vtzB6-cKFjWC-5Ru6BU-bnUCX3] The lovely folks at Brooklyn Bark [http://www.brooklynbark.com/]
Anarkali
This Friday through Sunday, you can get your hands on deals up and down Church Avenue. The Church Avenue Business Improvement District [https://www.facebook.com/ChurchAveBID?fref=ts] will kick off its summer sidewalk sales event at 10am on Friday, and the shopping and dining festivities will continue through
This Friday through Sunday, you can get your hands on deals up and down Church Avenue. The Church Avenue Business Improvement District [https://www.facebook.com/ChurchAveBID?fref=ts] will kick off its summer sidewalk sales event at 10am on Friday, and the shopping and dining festivities will continue through
car windows
Photo courtesy SusannaAlmost exactly a month after a neighbor sent us photos of broken car windows [/blog/crime/series-of-car-break-ins-reported-on-18th-street-between-ditmas-dorchester] on E. 18th Street, between Ditmas Avenue and Dorchester Road, another neighbor spotted more smashed windows at the same spot this morning. Neighbor Susanna Stein sent us these photos of the
Frida Kahlo
Some Lou Reed and Frida Kahlo (brought to us by neighbor and artist Juan Carlos Pinto [/blog/photos/the-finishing-touches]) to brighten your day! Photograph via katehallet [https://instagram.com/p/42kPEnMuZh/?taken-by=katehallet] (and taken at Bar Chord [http://barchordnyc.com/]). Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in
improvements
Besides the number of planned improvements [/construction-2/prospect-park-alliance-plans-improvements-for-parade-ground] (including building an adult fitness area and improving drainage) in the Parade Ground, what would you like to see change at Prospect Park? The Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.prospectpark.org/] is asking neighbors to take a three-minute anonymous survey [http://pwc.
Photo via Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.facebook.com/ProspectParkBrooklyn/photos/pb.10150099384115385.-2207520000.1436386078./10155731842600385/?type=3&theater] Besides the number of planned improvements [/construction-2/prospect-park-alliance-plans-improvements-for-parade-ground] (including building an adult fitness area and improving drainage) in the Parade Ground, what would you like to see change at Prospect
451 Clarkson Avenue
Beginning today, July 8, you can nab locally grown vegetables, fruit and flowers at the first-ever farmers market at Kings County Hospital [http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/kchc/html/home/home.shtml] (451 Clarkson Avenue). The city Health and Hospitals Corporation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/html/news/
Romy Dorotan
With no air conditioning in our apartment and the humidity deciding it needed to really step up its game yesterday, we set our sights on something very cold last night: ice cream at Purple Yam [http://www.purpleyamnyc.com/] (1314 Cortelyou Road, between Rugby and Argyle Roads). Chef Romy Dorotan
1314 Cortelyou Road
With no air conditioning in our apartment and the humidity deciding it needed to really step up its game yesterday, we set our sights on something very cold last night: ice cream at Purple Yam [http://www.purpleyamnyc.com/] (1314 Cortelyou Road, between Rugby and Argyle Roads). Chef Romy Dorotan