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# ICYMI: A View From The 2016 Flatbush Frolic
- URL: https://bklyner.com/icymi-view-2016-flatbush-frolic-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2016-09-26T19:46:19.000Z
- Updated: 2016-09-26T19:46:19.000Z
- Author: Gabrielle Lenhard
- Tags: Central Brooklyn, Ditmas Park, Events, Nonsponsored, cortelyou road, flatbush frolic, #wp

![(Photo by Gabrielle Lenhard / Ditmas Park Corner)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/frolic-4-702x527.jpg)

(Photo by Gabrielle Lenhard / Ditmas Park Corner)

For the Flatbush Frolic on Cortelyou Road, the annual festival celebrating local community, residents could not have asked for a more beautiful Sunday.

On September 25, Cortelyou Road from Ocean Avenue to Coney Island Avenue was packed with a collection of performers, food, crafts and community outreach tables — from Third Root Community Health Center and the Community Emergency Response Team, to the petite train offering rides up and down 18th Street like a life-sized Thomas & Friends engine.

![(Photo by Alex K / Midwood Productions)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/A-1-36-702x469.jpg)

(Photo by Alex K / [Midwood Productions)](http://www.midwood-productions.com/?ref=bklyner.com)

Businesses brought displays from behind their glass confines onto the street, with some blasting music like the DJ booth at Junior’s Car Service between Marlborough Road and East 16th Street.

![(Photo by Gabrielle Lenhard / Ditmas Park Corner)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/frolic8-702x527.jpg)

(Photo by Gabrielle Lenhard / Ditmas Park Corner)

An outdoor beer garden and food court blossomed between Westminster and Stratford Roads from Sycamore, Lea, The Farm on Adderley, Bashi Channel, Mimi’s Hummus, and Connecticut Muffin.

![(Photo by Gabrielle Lenhard / Ditmas Park Corner)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/frolic6-702x527.jpg)

(Photo by Gabrielle Lenhard / Ditmas Park Corner)

Latin Fever Dance Studio hosted a ‘Bet You Can Do It Like Me’ children’s dance competition, offering a month of free classes to the dancer with the best moves.

![Photo by Alex k / Midwood Productions](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Frolic-dance-Alex-k-Midwood-Productions-702x469.jpg)

(Photo courtesy Alex K / [Midwood Productions](http://www.midwood-productions.com/?ref=bklyner.com))

The smoke from sizzling corn, chicken, sausages, arepas and — of course — friend Oreos, hung above the eclectic crowd of neighbors.

![(Photo by Alex K / Midwood Productions)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Frolic-by-Alex-k-Midwood-Productions-702x469.jpg)

(Photo courtesy Alex K / [Midwood Productions](http://www.midwood-productions.com/?ref=bklyner.com))

I took a moment to rest near Rugby Road, sipping on the juice of a hollowed out coconut through a straw. It was three bucks; the most inexpensive, natural coconut water I’ve ever tasted.

The lead singer of local band Jules and the Jinks belted out a chorus from the nearby stage, her crimson sleeves billowing in the wind like wings.

Later, I heard the slow, soulful beat of Bob Marley’s ‘Jammin’ before I saw the band, with their speakers erected between Bar Chord and a bouncy house, their dreds swinging in the sunlight — Alegba and Russel of *Alegba and Friends*, jamming like pros. They drew a crowd, Alexandra, Kevin and Chris, to their circle as they rotated instruments, building on each other’s skills and talents.

![(Photo by Gabrielle Lenhard / Ditmas Park Corner)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/frolic_1-702x527.jpg)

(Photo by Gabrielle Lenhard / Ditmas Park Corner)

Alexandra made up a song on-the-fly, which repeated the refrain: “I don’t know what I’m sayin. But I’m having fun. I’m chillin. It’s a beautiful day.” She hit on the key note of the day: This afternoon was about celebrating and extending community.

Special thanks to photographer Alex K of Midwood Productions for the beautifully captured event photos below:

![(Photo by Alex K)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/A-1-22-702x942.jpg)

Fun at the NYPD rock climbing wall. (Photo by Alex K)

![(Photo by Alex K)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/A-1-6-702x1052.jpg)

Outdoor chess tournaments. (Photo by Alex K)

![(Photo by Alex K)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/A-1-13-702x469.jpg)

Pizza from Lea. (Photo by Alex K)