photo of the day
A deadly raptor on the move. Take any photos in the neighborhood recently? Send them to ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com or add them to the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner] and we’ll post them on the blog.
Here’s the neighborhood with a more golden hue, thanks again to Crissa Chappell [http://www.flickr.com/photos/crissa/8056599983/in/pool-dpcorner]. Take any photos in the neighborhood recently? Send them to ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com or add them to the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/
Crissa Chappell
Crissa Chappell [http://www.flickr.com/photos/crissa/8042378300/in/pool-dpcorner] snapped this shot earlier this week. Take any photos in the neighborhood recently? Send them to ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com or add them to the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner] and we’ll post
Here’s the weekly roundup of open houses around the neighborhood. What do you think? HOUSES• 295 East 17th Street [http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&listingid=2318598] (pictured above) is on sale for $1,199,000. The 4,500-square-foot townhouse has been on the market
apartments
Here’s the weekly roundup of open houses around the neighborhood. What do you think? HOUSES• 295 East 17th Street [http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&listingid=2318598] (pictured above) is on sale for $1,199,000. The 4,500-square-foot townhouse has been on the market
70th Precinct
A neighbor has reported an attempted break-in this morning on Cortelyou and East 16th Street at around 10:30 am. The neighbor said she had no description to offer, “just black fingers over the window.” This comes just after a report from the 70th Precinct that on Tuesday, October 2,
Filmmakers
Neighbor and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Judd Ehrlich [http://flatbushpictures.com/] has been working on a documentary called Science Fiction Land [http://scifilandmovie.com/] for six years and has recently launched a Kickstarter campaign [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scifilandmovie/science-fiction-land-a-stranger-than-fiction-doc] to raise $50,000 for the project, Entertainment Weekly [http://insidemovies.
elections
In response to significant “voter confusion [http://politicker.com/2012/09/voters-confused-council-members-hold-press-conference-to-discuss/] ” during last month’s primary election day, District Leader Rodneyse Bichotte is holding a voter education forum on Tuesday, October 23 from 6 to 9 pm at St. Jerome’s School (465 East 29 Street). “This event is
Sports
The Mets faithful may want to avert their eyes. For those of us in the neighborhood looking to watch the Yankees and the rest of the MLB playoffs, we have a few options. • 773 Lounge [http://773loungebar.blogspot.com/] will have baseball on the TV. • Sycamore [http://sycamorebrooklyn.com/] will
Energy Service Companies
Fake energy salesmen were spotted on Argyle Road between Avenue H and Glenwood Road yesterday evening around 5pm. Four men claiming to be from Con Edison or Family Values Energy (neighbors’ reports vary) were knocking on doors and asking to see Con Ed bills from neighborhood homes in order to
presidential debates
Neighborhood artist Tae Won Yu [http://taewonyu.tumblr.com/] (who did the cover artwork for a bunch of incredible Built to Spill records [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_from_Now_On] among other things [http://www.designrelated.com/portfolio/taewonyu]) was at Sycamore last night watching the debate and
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 9/17-9/23/12. Additionally, Patch [http://ditmaspark.patch.com/articles/man-arrested-for-stabbing-another-man-in-prospect-park-sunday] reported on