Above is the most recent CompStat report from the 70th Precinct, which covers the week of 9/10-9/16/12. Below are a few recent crimes around the area: • A passenger stabbed [/blog/crime/suspect-sketch-in-bus-driver-syringe-stabbing] a bus driver in the shoulder with a syringe and then walked away. • A couple
Subway and bus fares are set to rise considerably [/blog/transportation/metrocard-discounts-could-be-eliminated-in-2013] over the next few years, and that got us wondering about the commutes of old. How long did it take our Flatbush predecessors to make it from our neighborhood to what is now Downtown Brooklyn? And did they
Van Leeuwen Ice Cream
Spotted on Cortelyou Road: Ben Van Leeuwen and Laura O’Neill, husband and wife and two thirds of the team behind Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream [http://www.vanleeuwenicecream.com/]. Just a couple of days ago, the couple were peering through glass into the empty space on Marlborough and Cortelyou
brooklyn museum
Neighbor and sculptor Eric Pesso has been named one of the top 10 artists [http://gobrooklynart.tumblr.com/post/32333166567/your-ten-nominated-artists] for GO [http://gobrooklynart.tumblr.com/] from the Brookln Museum! You may known Eric as the man who takes a couple of cut down neighborhood trees [/wp-content/uploads/2012/
Nadia Chadhury [https://twitter.com/nadiachaudhury/status/250231521569550336] found Ditmas Park’s version of King’s Cross Station. This station seems a little less subtle than London’s. Take any photos in the neighborhood recently? Send them to ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com or add them to the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr
cariBBeing
The Flatbush Dutch Reform Church (on the corner of Flatbush and Church Avenues) will be hosting the free 3rd West Indian Film Festival [https://www.facebook.com/events/486647008020700/] this Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m. The event, hosted by cariBBeing [https://www.facebook.com/caribbeing], will be screening
Cortelyou Road is full of construction this afternoon and has the big trucks affecting traffic to prove it. Here’s a run down of what’s happening: • Cablevision is working on local connections and has a truck and worker on the block. Customers in the area have already lost television
A new mural is going to up on East 16th St and Newkirk Avenue (pictured above), says Robin Redmond, Executive Director at the Flatbush Development Corporation [http://fdconline.org/]. The old mural (pictured below) was removed [/blog/art-music/there-goes-the-mural-on-e-16th-st] in July. The FDC is now in the early stages of
Church Avenue Business Improvement District
The Church Avenue Business Improvement District [http://www.churchavenue.org/] is looking for local talent as it creates its 2013 calendar. Anyone who lives, works or shops on Church Avenue is invited to have their photo taken at the October 4 and 5 shoot. Shop owners, families, employees, shoppers, block
Lloyd Miller
Neighbors Roy Nathanson and Lloyd Miller are premiering songs from Trashed Out, a musical film the pair have written about the housing crisis in Florida. > Trashed Out Tunes Friday, September 28, 10pm The Stone [http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php] Corner of Ave C and 2nd St, East Village To
You have to walk off of Westminster to get a closer look at this guitar on display. 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
Senate District 27
State Senator David Storobin, whose 27th district [http://www.nysenate.gov/district/27] covers a few blocks in our area, was in the Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/late-paying-brooklyn-sen-david-storobin-grand-old-rent-party-article-1.1161052] recently for being taken to court three times in 11 years for nearly $10,000 in rent