Neighbors
Ditmas Park home featured by Brooklyn Magazine. (Photo: Google Maps)A 1902 Victorian house in our area was just featured in Brooklyn Magazine [http://www.bkmag.com/2016/03/29/as-seen-on-tv/]. The four-bedroom house, which has appeared in the TV show Girls, has been re-painted in true Victorian fashion since
Central Brooklyn
Ditmas Park home featured by Brooklyn Magazine. (Photo: Google Maps)A 1902 Victorian house in our area was just featured in Brooklyn Magazine [http://www.bkmag.com/2016/03/29/as-seen-on-tv/]. The four-bedroom house, which has appeared in the TV show Girls, has been re-painted in true Victorian fashion since
News
Corcoran thinks you do already. A local real estate broker just sent out a mass direct mailing, labeling us all as living in WiViKen. The map mash-up seems to indicate that it might stand for Windsor Terrace — Victorian Flatbush — Kensington, though Flatbush has assumed a bit of an odd location
Central Brooklyn
Corcoran thinks you do already. A local real estate broker just sent out a mass direct mailing, labeling us all as living in WiViKen. The map mash-up seems to indicate that it might stand for Windsor Terrace — Victorian Flatbush — Kensington, though Flatbush has assumed a bit of an odd location
East Midwood Jewish Center
Photo via Kings TheatreThe full list of sites open for the Annual Open House New York [http://www.ohny.org/] Weekend, October 17 and 18, were revealed yesterday and there are a number of extraordinary places open to tour and explore. Hundreds of sites across the city are participating in
race
The University of Virginia’s Cooper Center [http://www.coopercenter.org] just released a map including one dot for each person counted in the 2010 US Census [http://www.coopercenter.org/demographics/Racial-Dot-Map]–a full 308 million dots organized to show the racial makeup of different parts of the country.
victorian flatbush
Prepare to history nerd out–neighbor Michael sent us an interactive map, just released by BKLYNR’s Thomas Rhiel [http://bklynr.com/block-by-block-brooklyns-past-and-present/], that shows the approximate age of all ~32,000 buildings in Brooklyn–and you can see the distinct eras during which different parts of Victorian Flatbush were
Jumaane Williams
This Sunday, June 9, Councilmember Jumaane Williams [http://council.nyc.gov/d45/html/members/home.shtml] will join the newly-formed Landmarks Political Committee [/blog/politics/notes-from-the-cb14-monthly-meeting-5] at a press conference to promote landmarking applications for Beverley Square East, Beverley Square West, Caton Park, Ditmas Park West, West Midwood, and South