Pictured above is is the most recent CompStat report [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fnypd%2Fdownloads%2Fpdf%2Fcrime_statistics%2Fcs070pct.pdf] from the 70th Precinct covering the week of 11/26 through 12/2/12. Several incidents have been reported around our
Church Avenue Business Improvement District
On the corner of Church Avenue and East 18th Street, Rekoda Grocery has been closed for several days. The shelves are empty and the doors are shuttered at the grocery, which opened in August of 2011. We contacted the Church Avenue Business Improvement District [http://www.churchavenue.org/]to ask
Collyer’s Mansion [http://shopthemansion.com/] hosted quite a grand opening party [/blog/business/collyers-mansions-grand-opening-happens-tonight] last night. The store was packed wall to wall with a curious and celebratory crowd, prosecco was poured and money changed hands as the neighborhood got their first look at just what was being sold
Almac Hardware
Still shopping? Last week, we took a walk around Cortelyou Road to put together a gift guide [/blog/holidays/the-cortelyou-road-holiday-gift-guide] for the de facto coolest strip in the area. Today, we leave Cortelyou to explore Newkirk Plaza, Foster Avenue and Coney Island Avenue’s shops. Here’s a list that
Walking around the neighborhood, induja_netri [http://instagram.com/p/TFoQXLTOLP/] found that the nights are starting to look a little brighter than before. Take a photo in the neighborhood lately? Send it to ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com or add it to the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.
homicide
Salvatore Perrone, the 63-year-old Staten Island man suspected since last month in three Brooklyn murders [/blog/crime/salvatore-perrone-63-charged-with-murdering-3-shopkeepers] including most recently a killing on Flatbush Avenue [/blog/crime/78-year-old-man-fatally-shot-on-flatbush-ave], has pleaded not guilty to six counts of murder, reports [http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/173839/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-brooklyn-shopkeeper-slayings] NY1. Perrone
Mimi's Hummus
Quick. It’s 11 a.m. on a Tuesday and you’ve got friends in the neighborhood looking to meet. Where do you take them for a bite to eat? Brokelyn [http://brokelyn.com/brooklyns-best-weekday-brunch-spots/] recently went through the best weekday brunch’s in the borough. In the list, they
ConEd
This Sunday’s Cortelyou Greenmarket has a couple of cool novelties, one of which sounds particularly out there and awesome. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, a bike blender [http://sustainableflatbush.org/2012/12/10/pedal-power-solar-power-at-cortelyou-greenmarket-on-december-16/] will be cooking pedal-puree soup with seasonal ingredients from Greenmarket
Brave New World
The Long Christmas Dinner [http://bravenewworldrep.org/current-season/] is coming to Ditmas Park. A 1931 play written by Thornton Wilder, the show chronicles 90 years of Christmas dinners in the Bayard family in all of 45 minutes. Described as a poignant, funny and unsparing look at an American family over
Brooklyn Recycle Project
The mosaic and mural in the Newkirk Plaza alleyway will be finished this month, says Newkirk Cares. Juan Carlos Pinto [http://jcarlospinto.com/] of the Brooklyn Recycle Project [http://brooklynrecycleproject.tumblr.com/] and Susan Jaramillo, who created the mural on the opposite wall [/blog/art-music/lots-of-helping-hands-at-newkirk-plaza-mural-painting] of the passageway, will
Ben Heemskerk
Collyer’s Mansion [http://shopthemansion.com/], gift shop announced on this blog [/blog/business/collyers-mansion-opening-on-stratford-in-november] in October, is holding a grand opening party tonight at 7 p.m. at the shop at 368 Stratford Road just off Cortelyou. The entire neighborhood is invited. To pique your interest, Ben and Mauri
bicycling
Following a discussion [/blog/crime/car-broken-into-and-cops-dont-show-for-over-2-hours-says-neighbor] about car break-ins around Ditmas Park, several neighbors have said they’ve seen lots of broken glass on streets lately. We’ve seen one of those glass problems [/blog/transportation/watch-out-for-broken-glass-on-the-street] already this year. An important question arose: is the glass from smashed car