Announcements
Santa won’t be able to miss this house! (Photo @re.naissance.chic.k/instagram) From all of us at Ditmas Park Corner, we wish everyone celebrating a very merry Christmas! We hope all our neighbors have a chance to relax, spend time with family and friends, and enjoy a
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Recycled Christmas and Hanukkah decorations are pretty and eco-friendly. (Photo by Odochi Ibe/Ditmas Park Corner)Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmaspark on Instagram, and we’ll post them on the
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Source: Brooklyn Banya/FacebookIf you do one thing in 2016, it should be to round up your friends and head to the banya. A banya is a Russian-Turkish bathhouse that typically includes a sauna, a steam room, and a freezing cold pool of water. In the Old Country, they’d
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Chinese Special at Bake and ThingsBrooklyn Magazine ranked Ditmas Park/Flatbush 15 on their list [http://www.bkmag.com/2015/12/22/the-best-food-neighborhoods-in-brooklyn-ranked/] of 16 best food neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Do you think this is accurate, what number would you give Ditmas Park? What do you think are some gems
Business
David Pitula, the creative spirit behind Ox Cart Tavern [http://oxcarttavern.com/], has sent us word that he’s no longer involved with Bashi Channel [http://bashichannel.com/], which he helped to open on Cortelyou road earlier this year: > As we are about to close out the year I
Arts & Culture
Brian Harkin for The New York TimesGertrude Stein, Picasso and W. H. Auden all had one thing in common; outside of being exceptional artists, they spent time in creative communes at some point in their lives. Andrew Thomas Reid, inspired by them, founded The Clubhouse, where young emerging artists have
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A delicious smorgasborg at Purple YamShare photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmasparkon Instagram, and we’ll post them on the blog. Also, like us on Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/DitmasParkCorner], follow
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Father Perry & Father Mendez, Our Lady of Refuge ChurchHere are the local congregations with services for Christmas Eve and Christmas: Our Lady of Refuge Church [http://www.olrbrooklyn.org/christmas-2015/] 2020 Foster Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210 Christmas Eve — Thursday, December 24th 9:00AM — English Mass 5:00PM — Family Mass
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If you’re looking for a good chinese restaurant to go to this Christmas you better start making reservations now because you’re not the only one with a hankering for general tso’s chicken. What started out as meals of convenience [http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/
Animals
Prospect Park Zoo [http://prospectparkzoo.com/] recently welcomed a furry new family member and on Monday, the little guy made his public debut. The mini Hamadryas baboon was born on October 22 to 12-year-old female Kaia, and 23-year-old dad Bole, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society [http://www.wcs.org/
Central Brooklyn
Can I have a pound of beef with my tinsel? Los Jazmines Grocery Photo: Odochi IbeShare photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmasparkon Instagram, and we’ll post them on the blog. Also,
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Friday, December 25 is Christmas; if you plan to celebrate outside of Ditmas Park enjoy safe travels and good weather. If you’re sticking around the neighborhood, note that Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24, is not an official city holiday, so all city government offices, including courts, are open. Here’