This month’s Community Board 14 [http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/] meeting [http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/november-2012-meetings/] is set for November 5 at 7:15 pm at Edward R. Murrow High School on East 17th Street and Avenue L. You can read the meeting’s agenda here [http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/
The weather may be about to get a lot worse just in time to rain on our parades [/blog/events/march-in-ditmas-parks-halloween-parades]. New York City is probably going to be hit with three powerful storms starting Sunday night, peaking on Tuesday and continuing into the middle of the week. From the
N/A [http://na-theduo.bandcamp.com/] is playing Sycamore on Thursday night. Tonight 10/25 • See N/A play Sycamore [http://sycamorebrooklyn.com/index.php/musical-events/], 9pm. • Michela Anne will play The Castello Plan [http://thecastelloplan.com/live-music/], 8pm. Friday 10/26 • New parent meet-up [/blog/events/meet-other-new-parents-every-friday-at-lark] at Lark
animal control
Raccoons are nothing new [/blog/animals/invasion-of-the-garbage-snatchers-raccoons-everywhere] around here and neighbor Alexandra Reddish just sent in a couple of the strangest pictures you’ll see this morning. Alexandra and her neighbor found a sick raccoon and called Animal Control. They confined the raccoon under a couple of garbage cans, and
Walking into Sycamore [http://sycamorebrooklyn.com/] on a Wednesday afternoon, one finds Matt Barclay, the new manager, discussing his next purchase. This beer from Virginia, another from Long Island and maybe Original Sin hard cider, first sold by lugging cases of it around the subway. A bottle of Budweiser is
Above 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, which covers the week of 10/8 through 10/14/12. Some incidents that have been reported around our
As long as I’m not number 101. 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.
East 9th Street
Last weekend’s East 9th Street clean up organized by Maria Newsom-Fahey attracted quite a few young and old neighbors. The group weeded, picked up trash, planted spring bulbs and put the street trees to sleep with mulch and, I assume, sweetly sung lullabies. Maria described the process, saying she
The service changes to the Q train that we’ve been reporting on every week [/blog/tag/service-changes] will continue for another eight weeks “through mid December”, says MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz. Manhattan-bound Q trains will continue to run express from Sheepshead Bay to Prospect Park on weekdays from 9:
NYCTA
It was announced at last night’s Community Board 9 meeting that the Parkside Avenue subway station will be rehabbed starting in the spring, ecstatically reports The Q at Parkside blog [http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2012/10/dreams-really-can-come-true-for-q.html] . Community Board 14’s push to rehab stations to the south
The traffic issues [/?s=%22CIA+traffic%22] plaguing Coney Island Avenue are something of a cause célèbre around here. We announced [/blog/transportation/councilman-eugene-announces-october-cortelyou-road-traffic-calming-forum] , attended and reported [/blog/transportation/heres-how-we-fix-traffic] on Councilman Mathieu Eugene’s Traffic Calming Forum earlier this month. Today, Eugene followed up the forum with letters to
Simcha Felder took out a full-page ad (pictured above) in the Orthodox Jewish newspaper Hamodia [https://www.hamodia.com/index.cfm] today stating that he is “the only candidate who shares our values” and “firmly opposes any redefinition of marriage,” reports the New York Observer [http://politicker.com/2012/10/