If you missed your golden opportunity to visit the beach last weekend, this weekend is not a good idea (as if you couldn’t already tell by the temperature). Details on this weekend’s service changes via MTA.info [http://travel.mtanyct.info/serviceadvisory/Default.aspx]: > No Q trains
esther hines
http://youtu.be/ZdLd1UM0bYI Local crossing guard and dancing sensation Esther Hines [/blog/neighbors/local-crossing-guard-esther-hines-shimmies-shakes-from-glenwood-onto-news-12] is at it again! Flatbush Development Corporation [http://fdconline.org] Executive Director Robin Redmond caught some of her sweet moves this morning on Ocean Avenue and Avenue I. “She was very happy!” says Robin. Thank
animals for adoption
Neighbor Patricia writes about Ms. Kitty [/blog/animals/neighbors-seek-home-for-ms-kitty-stray-found-last-month], a sweet cat she found recently but was unable to keep due to allergies in her family: > We have found a wonderful home for Ms. Kitty, now renamed Fionna. She went off to her new home on Sunday, with two
BuzzFeed
Buzzfeed [http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/the-definitive-ranking-of-new-york-city-subway-trains] ranked the best and worst NYC subway lines yesterday using lots of scientific experiments and empirical data, and it just so happens that our very own Q train came in at #1! As you may already know, our local line did receive accolades
milk & honey
We very, very sadly learned too late this past weekend that Qathra [http://www.qathracafe.com] (1112 Cortelyou Road between Stratford and Westminster Roads) and Milk & Honey [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Milk-Honey-Cafe-LLC/131322883735888] (1119 Newkirk Avenue on the corner of Westminster Road) were serving their amazing homemade donuts
ansel francis
Herbivores of Ditmas Park have been pretty excited (some even supa dupa pumped [/blog/food/west-indian-restaurant-coming-to-1017-cortelyou-road#wp-comments]) about the impending opening of Hartwell Vegetarian [/blog/food/new-restaurant-coming-to-1017-cortelyou-will-be-vegetarian], located at 1017 Cortelyou Road between Stratford Road and Coney Island Avenue, since we first noticed activity in the space in early December.
book signings
Whiskey buffs have flocked to Sycamore [http://sycamorebrooklyn.com] for over five years [/blog/business/bar-top-dancing-breakups-a-work-family-other-lessons-in-five-years-at-sycamore] to test the limits of bartenders’ knowledge on the bar’s huge selection, and now with Clay Risen [http://clayrisen.com]‘s American Whiskey, Bourbon & Rye: A Guide to the Nation’s Favorite
snow day
Parents and teachers across our social media feeds were everything from disheartened to enraged last night when NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña confirmed that schools would be open today [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/snowstorm-hits-u-s-foot-snow-article-1.1586238] , even after Governor Cuomo declared a state of emergency [http://pix11.com/2014/01/
No snow’s gonna stop this kitten! Photo by msdmonez [http://instagram.com/p/jcbEBKIDvM/]. Share your fearless blizzard kids 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
shootings
As you may already know, police at the 70th Precinct have made an arrest [http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/theshack/2014/01/gunfire-erupts-at-brooklyn-subway-station] in yesterday’s shooting inside the Church Avenue B/Q station [/blog/crime/man-shot-near-church-avenue-subway-station], although they tell us they are unable to release the name of the
Blue Bloods
CBS police drama Blue Bloods [http://www.cbs.com/shows/blue_bloods/] is set to film in the neighborhood again this Friday, January 24, according to these signs on Beverley Road between Stratford and Argyle. Blue Bloods stars Donnie Wahlberg [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005531/?ref_=tt_cl_t1]
A few updates on the snow [/blog/weather/nyc-under-winter-storm-warning-tuesday-into-wednesday], as it continues to pile around us: • As per the DOE, all after school programs are cancelled [http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/mediarelations/NewsandSpeeches/2013-2014/Chancellor%20Fari%C3%B1a%20Announces%20Cancellation%20of%20Afterschool%20Programs%20and%20PSAL%20Games%20Today] for today, though