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February 19, 2017 (Photo submitted by reader)Last night, firefighters stamped out a house fire on the border of Ditmas Park and Kensington. The all-hands fire started on the top floor of a residential building at 735 Coney island Avenue near Cortelyou Road, around 5:30pm on Sunday, February 19,
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Coney Island Avenue at Cortelyou Road. (Photo by Carly Miller / BKLYNER)The CBS cop procedural [http://www.cbs.com/shows/blue_bloods/] Blue Bloods is back in Ditmas Park…again. Blue Bloods, which features Tom Selleck playing the NYPD police commissioner and Donnie Wahlberg playing an NYPD detective, might as
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Video footage courtesy NYPD Police are searching for two men suspected of robbing and stabbing a teenager on Coney Island Avenue on Tuesday, just one block from PS 217. Two young men approached the 16-year-old victim and demanded his bicycle, on November 1 around 9:15pm, according to police reports.
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Chicken gyro platter with yellow rice, cucumbers, and white sauce. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)…Because sometimes a lunch salad just won’t cut it. Gyro Cafe, a Middle Eastern Halal restaurant on Coney Island Avenue between Beverley Road and Avenue C, is a great local spot for a hot
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(All photos by Ditmas Park Corner)Who says you have to travel to the Lower East Side for a barrel cured, Eastern European-style pickle? Eight years ago, owner and pickle master Alan Kaufman opened up a second branch of his famous LES store, The Pickle Guys [http://www.pickleguys.com/
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Photo courtesy of Brighton Neighborhood Association.It’s a neighborhood tradition that is now in its 40th year. The Brighton Jubilee brings everyone in this multicultural part of Brooklyn together for some end-of-summer fun. Music is the universal language, and there will be lots of it at this festival, which
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(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Music and food will fill Coney Island Avenue, between Avenue H and Foster Avenue, this Saturday August 20, for the annual Brooklyn Mela [/blog/events/brooklyn-mela-draws-thousands-of-people-to-coney-island-avenue-for-festivities-celebrating-pakistans-independence-day/] , which celebrates Pakistan’s independence day. Sponsored by the Pakistani American Merchants Association, the festival will be held from
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Neighbors gather on Coney Island Avenue after two Bangladeshi Muslim men were killed in Ozone Park, Queens. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)“Today, we are all Bangladeshi,” said Pakistani activist Shahid Khan, outside the Makki Mosque on Coney Island Avenue on Monday night. Kensington and Midwood community members gathered here
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560 Coney Island Avenue at the corner of Beverley Road. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)The national chain 7-Eleven is hauling two Brooklyn convenience stores to court for trademark infringement, reports the NY Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/7-eleven-sues-knock-off-stores-brooklyn-called-z-11-11-7-article-1.2726776] , claiming their signs are too-close-for-comfort to the
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Travelers on their way to Coney Island in the mid-19th century could stop at road houses like this for meals, drinks and care of their horses. Mort Tunison’s Road House, seen here in the early 1860s, was located along the Coney Island Plank Road (now Coney Island Avenue), near
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Coney Island Avenue Chandraat celebration, 2013 (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)On Tuesday, July 5, the annual Chand Raat bazaar is coming to Coney Island Avenue, between Avenue H and Glenwood Road. Chaand Raat, which means “night of the moon,” is an outdoor celebration where friends and families shop for
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(Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Mashallah is an Arabic phrase used to express gratitude, joy, and praise, or thankfulness for an event or person — a perfect name for my favorite 24-hour Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi buffet-style restaurant on Coney Island Avenue. On the outside, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by