influenza
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention [http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2012-2013.htm] says that this year’s flu levels have reached epidemic proportions [http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/11/us-usa-flu-idUSBRE9080WD20130111] here in the United States, and Governor Cuomo has issued a public health emergency
B35
Starting today and continuing through approximately October 2014, the B35 bus will be rerouted due to an ongoing reconstruction project of Church Avenue that includes updating infrastructure, installing sidewalk ramps and streetlights, and more. The current phase of the project affects a section of Church between Flatbush and Rogers Avenues,
The taco truck that’s usually parked on the corner of Cortelyou and E 16th Street [/blog/food/taco-truck-on-cortelyou] was stolen on Friday from its nearby after-hours parking spot, reports NY1 [http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_stories/175376/family-searches-for-stolen-taco-truck] . Rogelio Gonzalez and his sons Jose and Giovanny, who live
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Stanley the Dog
Julee [/advertise] passed a mass of cut branches on a lawn on East 18th Street, and had her mastiff, Stanley, pose to provide some scale. Take a photo in the neighborhood lately? Send it to ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com, add it to the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.
The Cortelyou Greenmarket [http://www.grownyc.org/cortelyougreenmarket] is open as usual tomorrow – it runs year-round on Sundays, 8am to 3pm. Every week, you can bring food scraps to be composted between 8am and 1pm, and textiles to be recycled from 8am to 2pm. Don’t forget to sign in
Police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating two men wanted in connection with an armed robbery in an elevator in a building on Linden Blvd near Bedford Ave on that occurred at about 2pm on Wednesday, January 9. Video from the elevator shows the two men on
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We don’t know all the details yet, but the FDNY tells us that a man was apparently hit by the subway at the Church Avenue station today around 6:30pm. They say that the man was brought to Kings County Hospital, and they do not believe he will survive.
You may see the name every day at the Tot Lot on the corner of Cortelyou and Argyle: Federico Narvaez. And you may know that Narvaez was a Lieutenant in the 70th Precinct when was killed on duty in 1996 [http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/20/nyregion/killing-brings-a-brutal-end-to-4-decades-of-crime.html]
Federico Narvaez
You may see the name every day at the Tot Lot on the corner of Cortelyou and Argyle: Federico Narvaez. And you may know that Narvaez was a Lieutenant in the 70th Precinct when was killed on duty in 1996 [http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/20/nyregion/killing-brings-a-brutal-end-to-4-decades-of-crime.html]