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Photo by Ditmas Park CornerThere are several film shoots happening next week in our area– if the weather doesn’t postpone them — so make sure to move your cars and keep a lookout for stars! On Tuesday, the CBS show Blue Bloods [http://www.cbs.com/shows/blue_bloods/] is
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Alex Belanchuk in his work space. Photo by Ditmas Park CornerFor 20 years, Alex Belanchuk has taken the shoes that have become the victims of our lives — the athletes’ sneakers that have seen one too many laps around the field, the construction workers’ boots trampled by sun and dust and
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Photo courtesy Anthony FinkelA man claiming to have a gun, but not actually showing it, robbed the Dunkin’ Donuts in Newkirk Plaza [http://www.yelp.com/biz/dunkin-donuts-brooklyn-98] just before 5pm Friday, making off with about $100, a spokesman from the 70th Precinct [http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/
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Yeah, we know you’re probably all tired of the snow, but we can’t help but ooh and ahh at how pretty it looks falling in our neighborhood, especially illuminated by the lights at Newkirk Plaza, as photographed by copper.and.stars [http://instagram.com/p/yd3KmHEpVh/?modal=true]
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We noticed the awning revamp at 6 Newkirk has finished, giving us a chance to see the neat old sign for the Newkirk Plaza Bootery at the space that’s now the Plaza Hair Salon [http://newkirkplaza.net/mall_store_list.html]. Besides being the Bootery, 6 Newkirk Plaza has
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Not long after one of our neighbors was followed from the Newkirk Plaza subway station [/blog/crime/man-accused-of-grabbing-womens-ankles-feet-charged-with-attacking-neighbor-after-following-her-from-newkirk-plaza] , and then allegedly attacked after getting off in Manhattan, another neighbor encountered a troubling incident at Newkirk last night. Neighbor Kathryn Rohe told us she “wanted to inform people in the neighborhood
Bobby's Department Store
How recession proof is Ditmas Park? I sent my tweenage boys out with a fistful of one-dollar bills to find out. Their only instructions were to spend $1 or less per item and stay between Church Avenue and Newkirk Plaza. What they found surprised me. The boys came up with
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If you have impeccable taste in shoes and glasses and rode the Q south past Ocean Parkway today, one fellow commuter thinks more than just your coffee was hot. Via CraigsList [http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/mis/4391069655.html]: > I passed you this morning (Tuesday, March 25) on the
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Feel like you’ve been waiting for that B train a while? Neighbor and DPC contributor Amber Ceffalio [http://instagram.com/p/gvOdq-TSgr/] spotted this little discrepancy last week while waiting for the train at Newkirk Plaza, which gives us the feeling it might be headed along another track entirely.
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The other day, a neighbor drew our attention to some Newkirk nonsense when he posted this passionate tweet: > @MTA [https://twitter.com/MTA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] FIX THE MACHINES at #newkirk [https://twitter.com/hashtag/newkirk?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] @DPCornerblog [https://twitter.com/DPCornerblog?
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On Saturday, August 24 at 1pm, neighbors are invited to join the Goldman family, Almac Hardware [http://www.almachardware.com/], and FDC [http://fdconline.org/] as they host a plaque dedication and memorial ceremony in honor honor of Paul Goldman, the longtime owner of Almac [/blog/business/meet-the-handymen-at-almac-hardware] who passed
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A darkening plaza and platform, as seen by robviolajr [http://instagram.com/p/ZHGe4Rujcw/]. Share your Ditmas Park photos by email 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