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Photo by Ditmas Park CornerAfter a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites. A driver swerved to avoid a bus [http://fortgreenefocus.com/
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Photo via Tom Magliery [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/345145225/in/photolist-wuXDK-4gr5XL-4nffsC-ayiQR-7aVEAa-dTBeaM-e3ukUW-iLgGhN-k2pFkp-7aVEzD-57KSaW-FN3By-fADU6L-ozh9EZ-oRK7hf-eSsobX-k2qiKB-k2qikZ-k2s5AY-jH8zWi-k2s4bU-eayuHr-mVr1W4-u3QhT-9m1hnR-mVqXNF-8pSgoM-9hK5yy-8Z3NVH-5htTYV-7hrWZQ-6vkDQm-8pVkPL-6vgt6a-6PfTK8-8poJHb-7KvvDn-FNuov-8pSiM4-4E7rjP-a54HYQ-jH87DR-6vLF68-3zMRMK-5iVPTA-AgmMBT-2eZMLH-8poEvo-BHoC7-njUUyS] In response to a series of tragic fires [/blog/crime/glenwood-road-fir
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Photo via FDCThe Flatbush Development Corporation [http://www.fdconline.org/] and Chabad of Ditmas Park are hosting a Grand Menorah Lighting for the final night of Chanukah, at the new public menorah in Newkirk Plaza, right outside the subway station. For many years, the Newkirk Plaza Merchants Association has provided
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Windsor Terrace resident Billy Yee died in October from injuries sustained after being shot in 1982, according to the Medical Examiner’s office, and officials are considering whether to rule the incident a homicide. Police found Yee around 2am on June 14, 1982 on Sands Street under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
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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
News
275 Webster Ave #3E (Photo via Brooklyn Hearth [http://www.brooklynhearth.com/listing/498#])We’ve rounded up some of the more interesting Ditmas Park open house listings for this weekend. Any thoughts on these places? 2117 Glenwood Road [https://www.compass.com/listing/2117-glenwood-road-brooklyn-ny-11210/0dc27fd8496fe95016ccb8ea998054bd8e061cd8/] List Price: $1,099,
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275 Webster Ave #3E (Photo via Brooklyn Hearth [http://www.brooklynhearth.com/listing/498#])We’ve rounded up some of the more interesting Ditmas Park open house listings for this weekend. Any thoughts on these places? 2117 Glenwood Road [https://www.compass.com/listing/2117-glenwood-road-brooklyn-ny-11210/0dc27fd8496fe95016ccb8ea998054bd8e061cd8/] List Price: $1,099,
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Photo by Mary Bakija/Ditmas Park CornerEveryone deserves a sweet holiday, which is what led several neighbors to help bake and decorate dozens of cookies this week for an annual party that gives homeless children in New York City a reason to celebrate. Each year the Coalition for the Homeless
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Photo by cynthiachaldekas [https://www.instagram.com/cynthiachaldekas/]Several MTA crews working on the tracks as two B trains pull into Newkirk Plaza. 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,
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Shahid Khan (Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner)Shahid Khan has become an important local community leader in the past few years. Earlier this year, he opened the BRICK Community Center [/blog/neighbors/breaking-barriers-new-community-center-aims-celebrate-pakistani-culture-connect-neighbors/] . He helps run the Startalk Urdu language program [/blog/education/65-students-graduated-from-summer-urdu-program-on-friday/] for local students, and
Arts & Culture
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
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According to police, two suspects robbed the bodega at 564 Coney Island Avenue, on the corner of Beverley Road, in the 66th Precinct [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_066.shtml], Wednesday night. The suspects entered the store around 8:40pm, both carrying firearms, and took $55,