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Home Office Takes On A Whole New Meaning In Ditmas Park

Journalist Adam Sternbergh works in the Quiet Room at The Ditmas Workspace. (Photo: Maya Lewis)New York Magazine journalist Adam Sternbergh makes a short walk everyday from his home to a sprawling corner-lot Victorian house in Ditmas Park. There’s always an office with a view waiting inside for him.

Business

The Thrift Shop That’s Never Open But Always Selling

Thrift Shop on Westminster Road. (Photo by Maya Lewis/Ditmas Park Corner)There is a thrift shop on the corner of Cortelyou and Westminster roads but you cannot go inside it. The gates are always down. They are old, rusted, and stuffed with things. Fake flowers, books, records, collectables, and

Business

Alternative Health Care Thrives In The Neighborhood

Photo by Ditmas Park CornerMaster herbalist and shop owner, Karen Rose [/blog/business/herbs-health-and-more-at-sacred-vibes-apothecary], has watched the Ditmas Park community change over the past eight years through her shop window. The walls of her shop, Sacred Vibes Apothecary [http://www.sacredvibeshealing.com/], off Cortelyou Road, are lined with large tightly

Art Auction

Lark Cafe Hosts 3rd Annual PS 130 ‘Auction For Art And Enrichment’

A PS130 PTA member helps a guest bid on a piece at the Auction for Art and Enrichment at the Lark Cafe. (Photo by Maya Lewis/KensingtonBK)A constant tapping of phones and sipping of wine could be heard but this was no Friday night Brooklyn bar scene. It was

Caitlin Ryan

CAMBA’s Project ALY Fights to Diminish LGBTQ Stigma

Photo by Maya Lewis/Ditmas Park CornerYou may have noticed the newly launched Project ALY’s bus ads and bus shelters around the Flatbush area featuring a young African American transgender women and a young gay boy with his parents, encouraging families to support their LGBTQ children. Project ALY [http:

Religion

PTBAS Crosses The Gender/Age Divide With Ambi-Swing Class

Photo by Maya Lewis/Kensington BKThe young danced with the old, the old danced with the older and gender was of no concern. This was the scene at Progressive Temple Beth Ahavath Sholom [http://ptbas.org/] when the congregation gathered in the Temple basement for an Ambidextrous-Swing dance class. On