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Events
Sycamore will be throwing its Spring Fried Chicken & Waffles party on Sunday. Photo via Buttermilk Channel [https://www.facebook.com/buttermilkchannel/photos/a.304198422949377.62231.208220712547149/385707141465171/?type=1&theater] , which will be providing the food.Happy Thursday, neighbors! This weekend, you can watch the guitarist and musical
Facing the 23-story development that looms over the row of delis, pharmacies, and other mom-and-pop shops that line Flatbush Avenue, more than 100 people gathered at 626 Flatbush Avenue Thursday morning to protest the 421-a [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/developers/tax-incentives-421a.page] tax exemption program that neighbors said
Politics
Facing the 23-story development that looms over the row of delis, pharmacies, and other mom-and-pop shops that line Flatbush Avenue, more than 100 people gathered at 626 Flatbush Avenue Thursday morning to protest the 421-a [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/developers/tax-incentives-421a.page] tax exemption program that neighbors said
70 Ocean Parkway
Debbie Deane will be one of many performers at PS 130’s first-ever music festival. Photo via Debbie Deane [http://www.debbiedeane.com/]An impressive lineup of our neighbors will lend their talents to PS 130’s [http://ps130brooklyn.com/] first-ever music festival on Friday, April 17, when all community
Coney Island Avenue
The intersection at Cortelyou Road and Coney Island Avenue.After a pedestrian was struck [/crime/pedestrian-struck-at-notoriously-dangerous-coney-island-avenue-cortelyou-road-intersection] at Cortelyou Road and Coney Island Avenue last week, neighbors once again sounded the cry for safer conditions at a notoriously dangerous intersection that, for years, has drawn concerns from residents [/?s=%22cia%20traffic%
green
Volunteers carry the compost bin during the Q Gardens inaugural cleanup day. Photo by Nathan ThompsonThis Saturday, April 11, everyone’s invited to grab their kitchen scraps and head on over to the newly debuted [/blog/garden/years-organizing-neighborhood-volunteers-debut-q-gardens-inaugural-cleanup] Q Gardens (located behind the Church Avenue B/Q subway station on
accidents
The intersection at Cortelyou Road and Coney Island Avenue.After a pedestrian was struck [/blog/crime/pedestrian-struck-dangerous-cortelyou-road-coney-island-avenue-intersection-wednesday-afternoon] at Cortelyou Road and Coney Island Avenue last week, neighbors once again sounded the cry for safer conditions at a notoriously dangerous intersection that, for years, has drawn concerns from residents [/?s=%22cia%
There’s our neighborhood, lookin’ all spiffy, as photographed by li5aluna [https://instagram.com/p/1JVK2GSc8Y/?taken-by=li5aluna]. 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 them
alternate side
After what seemed like a winter free of alternate side parking [/transportation/alternate-side-parking-regulations-are-suspended-tuesday-february-17-through-thursday-february-19] , our neighbors with cars have had to get back in the swing of moving their cars for street cleaning — but, beginning tomorrow, those days of suspended regulations are back! Alternate side parking will be suspended from Thursday,
943 Coney Island Avenue
Image via Atlas Meat Steakhouse [https://www.facebook.com/atlasmeatsteakhouse/photos/a.1585137041770787.1073741826.1582844538666704/1586362344981590/?type=1&theater] After more than a decade, Kavkaz Restaurant [/blog/food/at-kavkaz-restaurant-introducing-brooklyn-to-azerbaijan], an Azerbaijani restaurant at 943 Coney Island Avenue, by Webster Avenue, has closed its doors and, following renovations, will reopen
After what seemed like a winter free of alternate side parking [/blog/transportation/alternate-side-parking-regulations-suspended-thursday-february-19] , our neighbors with cars have had to get back in the swing of moving their cars for street cleaning — but, beginning tomorrow, those days of suspended regulations are back! Alternate side parking will be suspended from
773 Flatbush Avenue
Amid yesterday’s insistently cold and drizzly weather, we were in the mood for something that was more “yes! heat!” and less lingering winter. So, with umbrellas in hand and tucked into the winter coats we’re hoping will soon be making their home in some far flung corner of