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(Photo by Carly Miller / Ditmas Park Corner)If you live in southern Brooklyn, you probably saw many families strolling to prayers and parties this morning, dressed to the nines, observing Eid al-Adha (pronounced EED al-UHD-huh) — especially if you live near the Prospect Park Parade Grounds, where a beautiful, outdoor prayer
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Hunger Pangs gate. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)This week in Ditmas Park, Big Lebowski spin off plus 3 other film shoots spotted in the neighborhood [/blog/art-music/jesus-rises-in-flatbush-as-john-turturro-films-big-lebowski-spinoff/] , 2 victims were killed during this year’s Caribbean Day festival [/blog/holidays/shootings-caribbean-day-festival-leave-two-victims-dead-labor-day/] on Labor Day, a fundraiser was announced
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Film crew in Kensington. (Photo by Carly Miller / Ditmas Park Corner)Catch up on the best Brooklyn news from our sister sites this week: Pavilion Theater to be converted into Nitehawk Prospect Park; Condo plans ‘scrapped’ [http://parkslopestoop.com/blog/art-music/pavilion-theater-to-be-converted-into-nitehawk-prospect-park-condo-plans-scrapped/] . [Park Slope Stoop] Citing opioid crisis in southern
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(Photo courtesy Friends of Greenwood Playground / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/223014854379847/photos/a.224896474191685.73559.223014854379847/1401616413186346/?type=3&theater] )The weekend is finally here, and we’d like to help you have a great one blocks from your home. Whether you’re looking to roller-skate to Prince
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Photo from scene of August gunfire on Ocean Avenue near Beverley Road. (Photo submitted by a neighbor)A 33-year-old man remains in critical condition after being shot in the head in Flatbush last night, just one block from Prospect Park. [Update 9/15: The victim, identified by police as Yearidin
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“The dreaded line wraps around twice” at the Flatbush Post Office, 2273 Church Avenue. (Photo by Chelsea Moquin / Google)A recent News 12 story [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWgqbnwmKCs] that documents the hour-long lines and flippant managers at the 11226 Post Office has cast an aggrieved public service
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Panang Curry Lunch Special at To B Thai. (Photo by Carly Miller / Ditmas Park Corner)Though I used to live down the block from To B Thai, a modest looking Thai restaurant at 126 Beverley Road at the corner of East 2nd Street, I never went in. It looked like
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> Just some of the thousands of officers up tonight making a safe, celebratory #JOuvert [https://twitter.com/hashtag/JOuvert?src=hash] in Brooklyn. #WeAreJOuvert [https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeAreJOuvert?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/NotGDAMEMi [https://t.co/NotGDAMEMi] — NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) September 5, 2016 [https://twitter.com/NYPDnews/
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(Photo courtesy: hannerz23 / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ8ot3njp5a/?taken-at=251412631])After a long Labor Day weekend, it’s finally time to drudge up those schoolbooks and backpacks for back to school week. But there’s still a host of great local activities while the summer weather lingers, whether
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(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Community support is pouring in via a fundraiser [https://www.gofundme.com/anthonynazaire] to help cover funeral costs for Anthony Nazaire, a 19-year-old Flatbush resident who was stabbed to death on the Cornell University campus last week [/blog/crime/community-mourns-flatbush-teen-stabbed-death-cornell-university/]. Nazaire’s mother, Katia Toussaint,
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121 Marlborough Road (Photo via Stribling.com)This week in Ditmas Park, a fire on East 5th Street decimated the second house in two years [/blog/news/fire-decimates-second-house-two-years-519-east-5th-street/], the community mourned a Flatbush teen stabbed to death at Cornell University [/blog/crime/community-mourns-flatbush-teen-stabbed-death-cornell-university/], kids learn to build a sustainable Brooklyn
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Brooklyn’s Lynch Park in 1974. (Photo courtesy U.S. National Archives / Flickr) Didn’t get out much this week? No Problem, we’ve got you covered. Catch up on what’s happening outside our neighborhood with the best stories from our sister sites. Residents question status of 24th street