Brooklyn ARTery

Twilight Stroll on Cortelyou: Eat Your Heart Out!

Join neighbors and come out to savor the flavors and diverse offerings from local businesses on Cortelyou Road in Ditmas Park on Thursday, May 9 from 5:00 – 9:00 pm Twilight stroll on Cortelyou [https://cortelyoueats.brownpapertickets.com/] includes the following: * Cheese Tasting at the Flatbush Food Coop [http:

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Last minute gifts for everyone on your list

No need to worry about the last day to order when you can visit these local Brooklyn businesses for your last minute gifts. Did you forget to get a gift for a family member or office mate? Have you been too busy to shop? Do you prefer the thrill of

Business

Organic Christmas Trees Return To Cortelyou Road Starting Friday

(Photo via Brooklyn ARTery)For the fifth season, Vermont couple Melody and Patrick Houle are bringing their organic Christmas trees to Cortelyou Road, thanks to the Brooklyn ARTery and Pilates on Cortelyou. The couple runs a family owned and operated tree farm [http://houlestreefarm.com/] near the Canadian border. Before

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Events This Weekend — Saturday Mother’s Day Event At Brooklyn ARTery & More

This list is in formation. If 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. Mother’s Day

Arts & Culture

Things To Do In Ditmas Park This Weekend

Photo via Sonic Lovebot [https://www.facebook.com/soniclovebots/photos/pb.588324151310737.-2207520000.1449763756./588648977944921/?type=3&theater] Looking for something fun to do this weekend? There’s plenty of great music at Bar Chord, a local art show, skating with Santa, and more! If you have an upcoming event

Arts & Culture

Things To Do In Kensington & Windsor Terrace This Weekend

Photo via Sonic Lovebot [https://www.facebook.com/soniclovebots/photos/pb.588324151310737.-2207520000.1449763756./588648977944921/?type=3&theater] Looking for something fun to do this weekend? There’s plenty of great music at Bar Chord, a local art show, skating with Santa, and more! If you have an upcoming event

Arts & Culture

Neighbors Create Entertaining Greeting Cards Full Of Irreverent Humor

Umlaut Brooklyn owners, Jocelyn and Roland Kirouac. (Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner)The best greeting cards are the ones that say what you can’t. And Brooklyn ARTery [http://www.brooklynartery.com/]co-owner Jocelyn and her husband Roland Kirouac have been making greeting cards that do just that

Business

Shop Local For The Holidays!

Brooklyn ARTery [http://www.brooklynartery.com/](1021 Cortelyou Road) is our neighborhood’s one-stop-shop for holidays. No matter what your budget, you will find something for everyone — him, her, host, hostess, niece, babysitter. This year they have gone a step further and created gift boxes, from I Love Brooklyn to

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Shop Local For The Holidays!

We are convinced you can do all your holiday shopping in Park Slope. Here are some of our favorites: Photo by Park Slope StoopGowanus Souvenir Shop [http://gowanussouvenir.com/]. We just reviewed it earlier today [/blog/art-music/ode-toxic-beloved-canal-gowanus-souvenir-shop-blends-local-whimsy-history-artistry/] , and you should totally check out this little gallery – local vendors, artists,

Brooklyn ARTery

Neighbor Paul Catalanotto On His Exhibit On Governor’s Island, The Magic Of Art & More

One of Paul Catalanotto’s works. Image courtesy Paul CatalanottoThis weekend, be sure to hop on the ferry and head over to Governor’s Island [http://govisland.com/], where you’ll be able to see neighbor and artist Paul Catalanotto’s [http://paulcatalanotto.com/] exhibit at the Brooklyn ARTery’s

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Free Chocolate & Wine Tasting At The Brooklyn ARTery This Thursday, June 11

Photo via Tumbador Chocolate [https://www.facebook.com/143858700299/photos/a.10151457669545300.840709.143858700299/10155571007500300/?type=1&theater] What’s better than wine and chocolate? How about free wine and free chocolate? You can get both this Thursday, June 11, from 5-7pm, at the Brooklyn ARTery [https://www.facebook.com/

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Discounts On Wine, Dancing, Clothing, And More During This Week’s Eat & Shop Your Heart Out Cortelyou

Photo via Brooklyn ARTeryFrom discounts on wine and clothes to being able to nab some beer and food for less, there are plenty of reasons to hit Cortelyou Road this coming week. The Flatbush Development Corporation [http://fdconline.org/] let us know what specials will be happening during this week’

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This Week In Ditmas Park

Photo via lexryan23 [http://instagram.com/p/yQRYvnGYPl/?modal=true]To keep up with all the news from the neighborhood, like us on Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/DitmasParkCorner], follow us on Twitter [https://twitter.com/#!/DPCornerblog], Pinterest [http://pinterest.com/dpcorner/], and Instagram [http://instagram.com/ditmasparkcorner/], and subscribe

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Things To Do In Ditmas Park This Weekend

Happy Thursday, everyone! This weekend, you can explore the history of our neighborhood on a Forgotten New York tour [http://forgotten-ny.com/2014/09/forgottentour-84-ditmas-park-and-flatbush/], go to a beer tasting at Market [http://marketcortelyou.com/], check out the annual Breukelen Country Fair at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum [https://www.facebook.

Brooklyn ARTery

More Swap Events Coming Up In Ditmas Park

If you believe in bartering, not buying, here are two events coming up in the neighborhood that might strike your fancy: * This Saturday, May 24, Lark [http://larkcafe.com] (1007 Church Avenue between E 10th Street and Stratford Road) will be holding a Shop & Swap [https://www.google.com/calendar/

Health

Feel Your Best With Upcoming Health, Wellness & Beauty Events Around Ditmas Park

Spring is a great time to take up a new workout regimen, make the best of the plants in your garden, or even just revamp your look. Conveniently enough, health conscious Ditmas Parkers can do any of those in the coming weeks with helpful classes just around the corner. Makeup

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One For The Big Kids: Adults Only Classes Coming Up In Ditmas Park

Who says the 10 and under set deserve all the fun? Teens and adults can also learn some new skills locally this month and next, including dance and Pilates, fiction writing, sewing and crocheting, and silversmithing. Jewelry Making with Hungry Cat Cafe Local jewelry maker Hungry Cat Cafe [http://www.

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What Classes Would You Like To See At Brooklyn ARTery?

Brooklyn ARTery [http://brooklynartery.net] co-owner Susan Siegel is looking for feedback about classes offered at the store. “We want to be a community art space that is more than just a retail store,” she says. “We are unique in that we offer classes for kids, adults and kids with

Aquarium

16 Free, Cheap & Exciting Ideas For Your End Of Summer Bucket List

The end of summer is nigh, as public school students report for roll call on September 9 [http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D45BBFC5-BB4E-4C6B-ACE7-F7E15D8AA1BE/0/20132014SchoolYearCalendar.pdf] . The question now is: How do we make the most of the remaining summer days? We’ve created a bucket list of exciting

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Brooklyn ARTery Moves, Building To Be Demolished

Brooklyn ARTery will be closed on Monday, May 27 to Friday, May 31 in preparation for their move to the former Brooklyn Style space [/blog/business/changing-facades] across the street. ARTery owners Susan Siegel and Jocelyn Lucas-Rosenberg have been working to restore the new space at 1021 Cortelyou Rd. (between

Brooklyn ARTery

Things to Do in Ditmas Park This Weekend

Ah, St. Patrick’s Day weekend, when everyone is Irish. Start your celebrations off right with us tonight, and then check out some of the other things that are going on around the area through Sunday. Thursday, March 14• Help us celebrate our first anniversary [/blog/news/help-us-celebrate-our-first-anniversary] at Sycamore,

99 Cent Super Store

Ditmas Park’s Grand Openings of 2012

As of March 10, 2012, Ditmas Park Corner could be counted among the many openings that took place in the neighborhood this year. Fashionable retail [/blog/business/look-inside-cortelyou-roads-brooklyn-industries] came to Cortelyou, gift [/blog/business/a-look-inside-collyers-mansion] shops [/blog/business/come-inside-cortelyous-new-brooklyn-artery-gift-shop] arrived down the block, a new cafe [/blog/food/lark-on-church-ave-officially-opens-today] came