@RedRoverBKLYN [https://twitter.com/RedRoverBKLYN/status/281407573524090880/photo/1], like many before her, was pretty impressed with Albemarle Road. 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’
Matt Barclay
Happy Friday, friends. If you need an excuse to celebrate, consider this: the world still exists, the holidays keep coming and 2013 is right around the corner. Let’s have a good 2013. What better way to celebrate all that than with a nice glass of something extra fancy? We
Ox Cart Tavern
New year’s eve is almost here. Here are the local options to ring in 2013: • Sycamore [http://sycamorebrooklyn.com/index.php/bar-posts/] is hosting a big party all night long. There’s no cover for DJs and dancing all night. Plus, a “super rare draft beer” will make an
Bobby's Department Store
Last minute gifts can be very, very interesting. If you’re still buying gifts for your loved ones (or for yourself), check out our Cortelyou [/blog/holidays/the-cortelyou-road-holiday-gift-guide]and Coney Island Avenue [/blog/holidays/the-newkirk-foster-coney-island-avenue-holiday-gift-guide] gift guides. Today, we have some big toys for young and old from Church Avenue.
Christine Quinn
State Senator Eric Adams is organizing Hands Across the Brooklyn Bridge [http://www.nysenate.gov/blogs/2012/dec/19/hands-across-brooklyn-bridge], a public call for gun control reform. The meetup for Brooklyn will begin at Cadman Plaza Park near Tillary Street at 4:15 p.m. on December 23. The march
The big, long-stalled construction site at 900-902 Coney Island Avenue above Domino’s was schedule to go up for public auction yesterday in a foreclosure but the sale was cancelled at the last minute. No specific reason for the cancellation was given to us. According to court records [http://www.
Real Estate
The big, long-stalled construction site at 900-902 Coney Island Avenue above Domino’s was schedule to go up for public auction yesterday in a foreclosure but the sale was cancelled at the last minute. No specific reason for the cancellation was given to us. According to court records [http://www.
311
Ditmas Park’s 11226 zip code filed 1,352 noise complaints with 311 in 2012, reported Gothamist [http://gothamist.com/2012/12/14/williamsburg_was_nycs_noisiest_neig.php]and BK Magazine [http://www.bkmag.com/BrooklynAbridged/archives/2012/12/20/the-5-noisiest-brooklyn-neighborhoods?showFullText=true] . That makes it the third noisiest
Vacancy
The space at 1023 Church Avenue (off of East 11th Street) has been closed, vacant and up for sale for months after General Vision Services left. It doesn’t seem like much progress has been made filling the vacancy but with so much happening on Church Avenue [/blog/tag/church-avenue]
nyrouge [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nycrouge/8291305218/in/pool-dpcorner] caught this zooming by. 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
Lloyd Miller
The Red Hook Initiative [http://rhicenter.org] is having a holiday party this Friday where they’ll be giving gifts to children in need. Lloyd from the Deedle Deedle Dees [http://thedeedledeedledees.blogspot.com] will be transporting donations to the party after his weekly sing along at Lark (tomorrow at
Stats
Crime dropped 39% in the first week of December compared to the same period year according to the 70th Precinct’s latest CompStat report. Numbers dropped nearly 50% compared to the last week [/blog/crime/shoplifting-bank-robbery-and-more-recent-crimes-in-the-area] in November. At 23 major complaints, the period from December 3 through December 9