Police & Fire
Screenshot via NYPDA Flatbush teenager has been arrested and charged in connection with an attempted rape on New Years Day in Ditmas Park [/police-search-for-suspect-who-tried-to-rape-a-woman-in-ditmas-park-elevator/]. Cops say that a Crimestoppers tip led to the arrest of 18-year-old Marck Beaubrun for following a woman into the elevator of her building on Ditmas
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Emmanuel Nicolas [https://www.flickr.com/photos/qsctmc295/6900098553] Starting 5am tomorrow morning, January 26th, all southbound trains will bypass the station till May 2016 (fingers crossed). During construction, the northbound platform will remain open, so you can take the train to 18h Avenue and transfer to northbound
Arts & Culture
Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner“The Americans [http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-americans/about],” an Fx drama in which Keri Russell [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005392/] and Matthew Rhys [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722629/] play two KGB spies posing as Americans in Washington D.C. in
Central Brooklyn
via NYPDPolice are on the lookout for two suspects wanted for beating up and robbing a man in the Ditmas Avenue F train station. On Saturday, November 14 around 3:45 in the afternoon, the two robbers approached a 42-year-old man on the on the southbound F train platform at
Central Brooklyn
The FDNY responded to a crash on Coney Island Avenue near Ditmas Avenue around 10:30am on Thursday morning after an SUV slammed into another car in front of the McDonald’s at 880 Coney Island Avenue. The driver of a Ford Explorer swerved to enter the drive-thru and hit
car windows
A car window smashed last week. (Photo via Susanna Stein)We received word from a neighbor today that more car windows were discovered smashed on East 19th Street between Ditmas and Newkirk avenues over the weekend, just days after we reported that car windows had been smashed [/blog/crime/more-car-windows-smashed-near-e-18th-street-and-dorchester-road]
ditmas avenue
Photo by aarongraubart [https://instagram.com/p/1DzPNWSeiq/?taken-by=aarongraubart]Heads up, neighbors — the Manhattan-bound F train platform at the Ditmas Avenue subway station will be closed from 5am next Monday, June 29 through the fall of 2015 for renovations, the MTA announced [http://travel.mtanyct.info/serviceadvisory/routeStatusResult.aspx?
ditmas avenue
Photo by therealtomh [http://instagram.com/p/r15u2omIuT/?modal=true]More and more people are jumping on subways throughout the city, with the MTA reporting an astounding six million straphangers riding the rails every day in 2014. In our neighborhood, Fort Hamilton Parkway saw a jump in the number of
ditmas avenue
Updated 9:21pm: Howard Jay Meyer sent us this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRNWAdkxqLw], taken by Izzy Weiss, of the accident, which we have learned involved a 13-year-old male victim, who was pinned beneath an NYPD van. In addition to the FDNY and NYPD, the Flatbush Hatzolah
attack
Police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down a man who the NYPD said assaulted an 88-year-old woman at her Kensington home Saturday, including throwing her to the ground and attempting to strangle her with his red hoodie sweatshirt. According to police, the suspect approached the elderly
Cell Phones
The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect they say swiped an F train rider’s cell phone and fled from the Ditmas Avenue station. On Monday, October 21 at about 11:30am, police say the suspect grabbed a phone from the victim’s hands
ditmas avenue
The Department of Transportation will be working on Ditmas Avenue [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bkresurf.pdf] from 40th Street to Ocean Parkway this week. They’re scheduled to have three paving crews on that stretch on Wednesday, August 28 and Thursday, August 29, so look out
sanitation
Do you live along one of the streets that’s been milled by the DOT [/blog/transportation/road-work-on-ditmas-avenue-this-week], but not yet paved? “Wonder if road repairs will take care of the puddles,” says our neighbor who sent this photo of Ditmas Avenue and E 17th Street. She says there are
apples
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car accident
The day before a new set of traffic lights is scheduled to be turned on [/blog/transportation/traffic-light-at-ditmaswestminster-will-be-working-by-tuesday] at the intersection of Ditmas Avenue and Westminster Road, there was another [/blog/crime/two-car-collision-on-ditmas-at-westminster] car crash. According to the FDNY, two cars were involved in the collision, which occurred at about
ditmas avenue
The Parks Department continued the work it began a week ago [/blog/news/city-begins-removing-dangerous-trees-in-ditmas-park] as workers cleared trees, stumps and debris from throughout the neighborhood. As the workers move from tree to tree, streets are being temporarily closed to general traffic. Above, Argyle Road was blocked off as debris was