All New York City public schools will be closed on Monday including all after-school activities and PSAL events, says the Department of Education [http://schools.nyc.gov/Home/InOurSchoolsToday/2012-2013/SchoolsClosed_20121026.htm] . An announcement about whether schools will be open on Tuesday will be made on Monday, so continue
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A couple of neighborhood fixtures wearing matching colors. 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.com/groups/dpcorner] and we’ll post it on the blog.
Sunday means the Cortelyou Greenmarket is back and it’s your last chance to buy pumpkins for Halloween. Bring unwanted clothes and other textiles and/or food scraps for collection on the corner of Rugby and Cortelyou from 8am to 1pm. For every five dollars you spend with your EBT
Buckingham Road
The corner of Buckingham and Albemarle Roads has some of the best Halloween decorations in the neighborhood. Who can argue with a full-on graveyard? 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.
Solitaire
Solitaire, the most played video game of all time [http://www.slate.com/articles/life/procrastination/2008/05/solitairey_confinement.html] and the most used program in Windows history, has been recreated for today’s release of the new Windows 8 operating system. A Ditmas Park artist led the way
Brooklyn’s poor give almost twice as much of their income to charity than the borough’s wealthy, says a new Civic Engagement Report [http://www.brooklyncommunityfoundation.org/sites/default/files/BTR-CivEngmtPDF-102412.pdf] from Brooklyn College’s Center for the Study of Brooklyn [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/departments/
Here’s the weekly roundup of open houses around the neighborhood. What do you think? As always, check out recent neighborhood open house listings [/blog/tag/open-houses] to get a complete feel for local real estate. CO-OPS & CONDOS • 415 Argyle Road #2K [http://brooklynhearth.com/listing.php?id=998]
Here’s the weekly roundup of open houses around the neighborhood. What do you think? As always, check out recent neighborhood open house listings [/blog/tag/open-houses] to get a complete feel for local real estate. CO-OPS & CONDOS • 415 Argyle Road #2K [http://brooklynhearth.com/listing.php?id=998]
Pedestrian Plazas
Pedestrian plazas and protected bike lanes are good for business says a new Department of Transportation study [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/2012-10-measuring-the-street.pdf]. The study looked at retail areas around the city, reports the Wall Street Journal [http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/10/24/report-bike-lanes-pedestrian-plazas-good-for-businesses/
Purple Yam
Another day, another Brooklyn list and another Ditmas Park winner. The L Magazine just wrote that The Farm on Adderley [http://thefarmonadderley.com/] is the best restaurant in our neighborhood [http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/the-best-eats/Content?oid=2273478&showFullText=true] , winning over runner up Purple Yam. > A
Spotted at the Newkirk Avenue Rite Aid. There’s a certain kind of person who does a double, triple and quadruple take when they see this in a store. They are also selling [http://www.atgames.net/front/bin/home.phtml] Sega Genesis and a few other devices. If you