Editor of Ditmas Park Corner
1365 Flatbush Avenue
If you’ve passed by the Parade Ground lately, you’ve probably noticed a new addition to the area: the giant NYPD watchtower at the corner of Parade Place and Caton Avenue. We spoke to 70th Precinct [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_070.shtml] Detective Dominick
free trees
Photo via the New York Restoration Project [https://www.facebook.com/nyrpgreen/photos/pb.71724736352.-2207520000.1431438534./10152674494991353/?type=3&theater] If you’ve been looking to add a little green to your life, you’re in luck! This Sunday, May 17, from 12-2pm, you can pick up a
Church Avenue
On Saturday, May 30, you can join our neighbors to make Church Avenue a whole lot prettier! Volunteers are needed for the Church Avenue BID’s [https://www.facebook.com/ChurchAveBID?fref=ts] annual Clean Church Avenue Day [/blog/neighbors/scenes-from-weekend-cleanup-events], which will run from 9am-2pm and is organized in
Councilman David Greenfield
Photo via the New York Restoration Project [https://www.facebook.com/nyrpgreen/photos/pb.71724736352.-2207520000.1431438534./10152674494991353/?type=3&theater] If you’ve been looking to add a little green to your life, you’re in luck! This Sunday, May 17, from 12-2pm, you can pick up a
farm on adderley
Looks like everyone and their mom wanted to be in Ditmas Park this weekend! There was a pretty darn big crowd waiting to have Mother’s Day brunch at The Farm on Adderley [http://www.thefarmonadderley.com/] this past Sunday, with the line stretching past Qathra [https://www.facebook.com/
Photo via Scott Sharrard [http://scottsharrard.com/?page_id=18#!]Happy Monday, neighbors! This week, you can meet the brewers from Grimm Artisanal Ales at Sycamore [http://grimmales.com/], check out all the kid-friendly live music at ELK [http://www.elkcoffee.com/iframe-srchttps/wwwgooglecom/calendar/embedsrckari40elkcoffeecomctzamerica/newyork-styleborder-0-width800-height600-frameborder0-scrollingno/iframe/] , take a
compost
You can meet the brewers from Grimm Artisanal Ales at Sycamore on Tuesday from 6-8pm. Photo via Grimm [https://www.facebook.com/GrimmAles/photos/pb.446401378776369.-2207520000.1431376873./755169741232863/?type=3&theater] Happy Monday, neighbors! This week, you can join your neighbors at a CB 14 meeting [/blog/politics/
blind
Neighbors Gordon Rothman and Faith Justice record a weekly radio program for individuals who are blind.Sitting in an attic room of their Stratford Road home, neighbor Gordon Rothman and his wife, Faith Justice, don their headsets, place themselves in front of their microphones and begin to read the words
home invasion
Three men broke into a second-floor apartment on 39th Street Saturday night. Photo via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.642775,-73.989855,3a,90y,35.3h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sv6gyg1zXENljGr8yEP8drg!2e0] .After police said a home invasion ended in a 35-year-old man being shot in
There are many reasons to go to a Community Board 14 meeting [http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/may-2015-general-meeting/] – perhaps you’re having a problem in your neighborhood, maybe you’d like to voice your opinion to an elected official, or you want to connect with some like-minded civically engaged neighbors – whatever
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We love our neighborhood every day, but especially when it’s warm and sunny — like it should be all weekend! As photographed by duanesorr [https://instagram.com/p/2bG4iEHkHx/?taken-by=duanesorr]. Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/