Bistro 915
Bistro 915 on Cortelyou Road has been closed recently and several neighbors have wondered when and if it was coming back. The “Temporarily Closed” sign on the front door has kept the area checking back on daily basis. Dave, the owner, wrote to tell us exactly what the problem was:
flatbush frolic
Like a lot of you, we went to the Flatbush Frolic this past Sunday and took a few pictures [/blog/events/exploring-the-flatbush-frolic]. You’ve seen ours, now show us yours. Here are a few great videos and pictures of the festival from neighbors who enjoyed Sunday’s sunny weather on
Brooklyn ARTery Flea Market
Brooklyn ARTery’s [http://brooklynartery.wordpress.com/] Susan Siegel [/blog/tag/susan-siegel] and Jocelyn Lucas-Rosenberg are opening a pop-up gift shop for the holidays on Cortelyou Road. The temporary store will open its doors in November at 1020 Cortelyou, in the cinderblock storefront right next door to the old Vox
State Senator David Storobin, whose 27th district [http://www.nysenate.gov/district/27] covers a few blocks in our area, is in the Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/late-paying-brooklyn-sen-david-storobin-grand-old-rent-party-article-1.1161052] for being taken to court three times in 11 years for nearly $10,000 in rent at
Russel Sharmon
Neighbor and filmmaker Russell Sharman is preparing for the premier of Small of Her Back [http://www.smallofherback.com] at the Urbanworld Film Festival [http://urbanworld.org/narrative-features/small-of-her-back/] this Friday and Saturday. You can buy tickets here [http://urbanworld.org/narrative-features/small-of-her-back/]. The vast majority of the film was
Campus Road Trees [https://www.facebook.com/groups/campusroadtrees/] is looking for volunteers to help build tree guards starting this weekend. > Our starting days are this Friday, 12-4 p.m. and Saturday, 10-2 p.m. We need two people to come Friday and two people on Saturday. This is
nathan thompson
Neighbor Nathan Thompson sent us this: > This was taken a week ago Saturday right after a big rainstorm around 11 a.m. Kids were quick to take advantage of a huge puddle that filled Lewis Circle at the corner of Buckingham and Albemarle. How are the flood-prone streets [/blog/
Sam Mackey sent us this photo of a fallen branch at Ditmas Avenue and East 16th St. The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for the mid-Atlantic region until 7 p.m. If you spot weather-related damage or anything interesting, email ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com, post it on our
Ditmas Park Sitting Group
The neighborhood meditation group Ditmas Park Sitting Group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/ditmasparksits/] is hosting a Zen-style sitting meditation on Sunday at 6:55 p.m. at Third Root [http://thirdroot.org/main.html] . The event includes sitting and walking meditations on Sunday. More advanced practitioners and those who
Adelynn's Restaurant & Grill
Just over a month after opening its doors [/blog/business/adelynns-opens-in-newkirk-ave-space-that-had-a-fire-earlier-this-year] , Adelynn’s Bar and Grill on Newkirk Avenue between E 16th and E 17th Streets is temporarily closed, as many of our readers have pointed out [/blog/business/commercial-space-for-rent-on-newkirk-avenue]. The men working on the space said that the problem
biking
If you saw a roving gang of 15 bike riders around the neighborhood last Saturday, it was the Historic Districts Council’s Victorian Flatbush Bike Tour [http://hdc.org/uncategorized/six-to-celebrate-victorian-flatbush-bike-tour], part of HDC’s Six to Celebrate [http://ditmasparkblog.com/neighborhood-history/the-historic-district-council-celebrates-vicotrian-flatbush] advocacy program. The tour was led by
classes
Neighbors Rachel Saks and Ora Warmflash (left and right) are two friends with minds for food. They are the pair behind tABLE health [http://www.tablehealth.com], a local company aiming to build healthy lifestyles with fresh, local food and nutritional cooking. The two ladies have teamed up with Lark