This Week in Ditmas Park

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In case you missed anything this week, here’s a recap:

• Read our interview with Congresswoman Yvette Clarke before the primary on Tuesday.

• What do you do with cute raccoons that may or may not be rabid?

• Help Morgan with her 9th birthday wish for donations to a children’s hospital.

• Help get two trees back on Church Avenue.

• Since we wrote about trouble at Argyle/Cortelyou, there’s been more of a police presence. Thank you to the 70th Precinct!

• Strawberry shortcake eating competition at the Greenmarket never looked so good.

• A stabbing on Ditmas Ave on Tuesday night.

• Things you didn’t know about mosquito control in NYC.

• The new murals are up on Church Avenue, and they look great.

• How much houses are selling for in the neighborhood, and who’s actually selling them.

• A Metro PCS is coming to Newkirk Plaza, but what else?

• The lane blocked by businesses on one block of CIA can add 2 minutes to your trip.

• A new pizza place might be coming to Foster Ave.

• This week was hot, hot, hot.

• That nice smell in the neighborhood? Might be honeysuckle.

• That terrible smell? Might be sewage.

• Finally, Lolita Lens takes a look at the aesthetics of the new bike racks.