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# This Week In Ditmas Park
- URL: https://bklyner.com/this-week-in-ditmas-park-100-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2014-03-02T16:40:32.000Z
- Updated: 2014-09-30T04:04:09.000Z
- Author: Nora Whelan
- Tags: #API-Imported

![laundry bags by brooklynwonder](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Screen-Shot-2014-03-02-at-11.36.55-AM.png)

  
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And please send news tips, photos, and more to [editor@ditmasparkcorner.com](mailto:editor@ditmasparkcorner.com)!

Here’s a recap of the past week:

• Three men have [held up at least 10 stores around the city](/blog/crime/police-seek-suspects-in-citywide-streak-of-armed-robberies), including Crown Grilled Chicken on Cortelyou.

• Manhattan Pizza [is for sale](/blog/business/manhattan-pizza-is-for-sale), plus the great BBQ debate of 2014.

• A new gym [is scheduled to open mid-March](/blog/business/elite-gym-coming-to-coney-island-avenue-next-month) on Coney Island Avenue.

• Bus time is coming to make your commute [just a liiiiiittle easier](/blog/transportation/next-month-all-of-brooklyn-is-getting-bus-time).

• The ground floor of 1016 Cortelyou Road [prepares for a future tenant](/blog/real-estate/interior-demolition-on-ground-floor-of-1016-cortelyou-road).

• Examining what’s next for [33 Caton Place](/blog/real-estate/a-closer-look-at-the-kestrel-currently-under-construction-on-caton-place).

• The second fire hit [83 E 18th Street](/blog/crime/e-18th-street-fire-sends-one-to-hospital) in less than a year.

• Neighbors are still trying to find a home for [a pug found on Avenue H](/blog/animals/do-you-know-this-pug-found-on-avenue-h).

• We got some details on [PS 139 construction](/blog/kids/playgrounds-will-remain-open-more-info-on-renovations-at-ps-139).

• Here are [our favorite chocolate treats](/blog/food/our-favorite-chocolatey-dishes-around-ditmas-park) around Ditmas Park. What are yours?

• Keith Williams of The Weekly Nabe [had a nice jaunt](/blog/neighbors/check-out-the-weekly-nabes-run-over-every-block-from-beverley-to-foster) through the neighborhood.

• Councilmember David Greenfield is pushing for [about 200 more crossing guards to be hired](/blog/crime/councilmember-david-greenfield-pushes-for-hundreds-more-crossing-guards-as-a-part-of-vision-zero) across the city.

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