Central Brooklyn
Photo: Google MapsA sanitation worker was arrested this morning in our area for violating an order of protection obtained by his former girlfriend, police said. James Jones, a 48-year-old New York City Department of Sanitation employee, was arrested about 9:30 this morning in the 70th Precinct, and was charged
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Ditmas Park CornerA New York Times article Friday extolled New York City’s “Next Hot Neighborhoods.” [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/realestate/new-yorks-next-hot-neighborhoods.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0] Not totally surprisingly, the Times has flagged Sunset Park West, Flatbush, the Rockaways, and East
Central Brooklyn
Shopping for flowers at Newkirk Plaza. Photo: Ditmas Park CornerThis week in Ditmas Park, we got to know our community’s very own homegrown music production company [/blog/neighbors/love-science-music/], we traveled through time on Church Avenue [/blog/history/head-east-on-church-avenue-with-forgotten-ny/], we saw the first signs of spring [/blog/events/see-the-first-signs-of-spring-at-brooklyn-botanical-garden-flowers/
Central Brooklyn
Photo via sophiabetzIf you have an event you’d like featured in our calendar, or if there’s anything we’ve left off, please let us know! Post your events in our community calendar [/blog/events/got-an-event-coming-up-share-it-on-our-new-calendar/] or email us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com. Black History Month Trolley Tour At
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New crocuses at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. (Photo: Sarah Crean)It’s a windy, chilly day today but Spring is coming. On a visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [http://www.bbg.org] today, we were excited to see that lavender crocuses and snowdrops had made their arrival in spite
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Brandon Lucain [https://www.flickr.com/photos/29530028@N07/4372682515/]Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will honor an emergency room doctor in East Flatbush dedicated to ending gang violence and two animal lovers who rescued a malnourished dog in Prospect Park that was left chained to a tree
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Photo: Ditmas Park CornerWith all this focus on the presidential election, is it still true that all politics are local? Robert Carroll [http://www.robertcarroll2016.com] thinks so. A lifelong Brooklyn resident and a member of a politically active family, Carroll is running for Democratic State Committee Member of the
Central Brooklyn
“Tacos El Chicken” food truck on Beverley Road. Photo: Nicole LevitMore intriguing food developments in our area — this time coming all the way from Mexico City. A reader spotted and sent photos of a new taco truck — Tacos El Chicken — on Beverley Road near McDonald Avenue Thursday night, “doing a
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Lou BuenoA few days ago we wrote about the new LED streetlights that have been appearing throughout Greater Flatbush [/blog/neighbors/new-led-lights-have-started-to-appear-in-greater-flatbush/], and were installed in Kensington [/transportation/new-led-streetlights-continue-to-bother-residents/#.Vs-LXLQ-A_M] last Fall. Readers had many interesting things to say about the new lights, especially their impact on street-level
Police & Fire
Residents have a new tool to understand crime patterns in our area. On Tuesday, the NYPD unveiled Compstat 2.0, a website [https://compstat.nypdonline.org] which allows users to examine crime statistics up to the most recent week, identify crime locations by street intersection, and get other details about
Central Brooklyn
New crocuses at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. (Photo: Sarah Crean)It’s a bleak, raw day today but Spring is coming. On a visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [http://www.bbg.org] today, we were excited to see that lavender crocuses and snowdrops had made their arrival in spite
Central Brooklyn
Screen shot of Compstat map showing location of robberies in the 70th Precinct in the last 28 days.Residents have a new tool to understand crime patterns in our area. On Tuesday, the NYPD unveiled Compstat 2.0, a website [https://compstat.nypdonline.org] which allows users to examine crime