This Week In Ditmas Park

This week in Ditmas Park, residents began to choose which capital projects — like a new dog run in the Parade Ground — deserve City Council funding, we explored the plants and flowers coming into bloom in our area, and we learned we are actually living in WiViKen.

Here’s a recap of what’s been happening in our neighborhood:

• A turn-of-the-century house on Stratford Road was destroyed in a two-alarm fire on Wednesday.
• It was learned that the man arrested in connection with the March 10th slashing of a woman on Beverley Road had been hospitalized for mental illness for over three months last year.
• A Kensington storefront that has housed haircutting establishments for over 80 years will soon be a Dunkin Donuts.
• The March 6th beating of a 28-year-old area gay man is now under investigation by the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force.
• An “authentic” Spanish tapas / wine bar and a “Ramen shoppe” are coming to the location of the old Cornerstone/Solo Bar (aka Brick Oven Pizza) on the corner of Marlborough and Cortelyou Roads.
• The iconic Bond Bakery building, at Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard, now serves as Brooklyn Commons, a “co-working space.”
• The owners of a Midwood construction company, who benefited from a program to assist minority-owned businesses, pled guilty to underpaying employees working at several Brooklyn schools, including IS 232 in East Flatbush.
• The Imburgia family celebrated 50 years of dedication to family and community while running Korner Pizza on Church Avenue.
• Ole Sondresen, who has designed the interiors of Sycamore, the Farm on Adderley, Mimi’s Hummus, and The Costello Plan, has recently finished working on a Ditmas Park home.

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