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Azaleas Everywhere #1 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/44339182@N07/6970170472/], by mdgphoto [http://www.flickr.com/photos/44339182@N07/] on Flickr. Have you taken a great photo of the neighborhood today? Send it our way to get it posted on the blog. Two ways to do it: Email us
Neighbor Becky asks a question that I’m sure a lot of new parents in the neighborhood wonder about: > I have a 7-week old baby and was wondering if you had any information on a new parents group in Ditmas Park or its environs. I’ve tried searching on
Untitled [http://www.flickr.com/photos/crissa/6964901244/], by crissachappell [http://www.flickr.com/photos/crissa/] on Flickr. Have you taken a great photo of the neighborhood today? Send it our way to get it posted on the blog. Two ways to do it: Email us at ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com
Neighbor Rob Viola [http://statikluft.com/] noticed several of these markings on the sidewalk along Coney Island Avenue between Glenwood and Avenue H, and wondered if it meant the city would be planting trees along this leafless stretch. Community Board 14 [http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/] tells us that those are
Brave New World
The world premier of Magic Camp [http://www.facebook.com/MagicCampMovie] by neighbor Judd Ehrlich is tomorrow in California. Some Ditmas Park neighbors in the news this week: • Merchants on Newkirk Plaza, led by Leon Kogut [/blog/business/leon-celebrates-100-years-of-haircuts-on-newkirk-plaza], got Public Advocate Bill de Blasio to stop by to help
Each year after-school programs have to be reintroduced into the city’s budget, and each year it seems like there’s a big drama that surrounds it. These programs have already been hit hard over the years [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/nyregion/mayors-budget-cutbacks-may-threaten-city-programs-for-children.html] , and this year
taxidermy
Is this the scene next door? 1901 taxidermy studio via Wikimedia [/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/FilePSM_V59_D023_The_taxidermy_laboratory.png]. Sometimes your neighbors’ hobbies are easy to determine–you see them out in the garden, you hear them practicing the bassoon. But sometimes you don’t know what
Five weeks watching the double parking, perpendicular parking, cars being worked on, and shop items blocking a lane of traffic on Coney Island Avenue [/blog/transportation/cia-traffic-update-3], and it’s still the same. Thanks to Michael [http://asddad.com/] and alsivi for sending photos. If you think it’s a
Coming up in May from Community Board 14 [http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/]: 5th Annual Youth Conference [/blog/events/check-out-numerous-opportunities-at-the-5th-annual-youth-conference] Wednesday, May 2, 4-7pm Brooklyn College Student Center, 6th Floor East 27th Street & Campus Road Public Hearings Monday, May 7, 7pm CB14 District Office, 810 East 16th St Three hearings:
Not bed & breakfast [/businesses/bed-breakfasts], but Beavis & Butt-Head [http://www.flickr.com/photos/carryboo/6970801058/], by carryboo [http://www.flickr.com/photos/carryboo/] on Flickr. Have you taken a great photo of the neighborhood today? Send it our way to get it posted on the blog. Two ways
Golden Farm
http://youtu.be/EvoZZRZfCQ0 On Church Ave at East 4th Street, there’s a well-stocked market called Golden Farm that many of you probably shop at regularly. And in the past few months, you may have heard a lot about a campaign by Golden Farm workers [http://articles.nydailynews.com/