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# This Week In Ditmas Park
- URL: https://bklyner.com/this-week-in-ditmas-park-126-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2014-09-14T11:30:13.000Z
- Updated: 2014-09-29T22:45:40.000Z
- Author: Anna Gustafson
- Tags: Azerbaijani, azerbaijani food, #API-Imported

![squirrel](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-13-at-6.41.01-PM.png)

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Here’s a recap of what happened last week:

• We went to the polls and [backed Governor Andrew Cuomo and Rodneyse Bichotte](/blog/news/primary-coverage-cuomo-defeats-teachout-rodneyse-bichotte-wins-42nd-assembly-district-race) for the 42nd Assembly District.

• After learning that John’s Bakery would be closed for good, [we paid our tributes](/blog/business/from-a-sea-of-blue-and-yellow-tributes-to-johns-bakery).

• The NYPD launched a crackdown on [drivers illegally passing school buses](/blog/crime/nypd-launches-citywide-crackdown-on-drivers-illegally-passing-school-buses).

• An NYPD deputy commissioner promised to [look into the tickets being doled out at the Parade Grounds](/blog/crime/nypd-deputy-commissioner-promises-to-investigate-tickets-being-doled-out-to-neighbors-walking-through-parade-grounds-after-dark).

• Keep an eye out for this bike, which was [stolen on a busy stretch of Cortelyou](/blog/crime/be-on-the-lookout-for-a-cortelyou-road-bike-thief).

• The Flatbush art trees project [needs your help](/blog/art-music/the-flatbush-trees-art-project-needs-your-help).  

• [The Blacklist filmed](/blog/art-music/the-blacklist-and-samsung-commercial-to-film-in-the-neighborhood-this-week) in our neighborhood.

• We looked for a [home for Mau](/blog/animals/mau-the-greatest-cat-in-the-world-needs-a-home)…  

• …and found a temporary home for Kingpin, the [cat abandoned on the sidewalk](/blog/animals/cat-abandoned-on-the-sidewalk-now-being-taken-care-of-by-rescue-non-profit-needs-a-forever-home).

• The new chili chicken dish at Madina? [Yes please!](/blog/food/bite-of-the-day-chili-chicken-at-madina-restaurant-on-coney-island-avenue)

• [Lea started delivering food](/blog/food/lea-starts-delivering-food-today) – an announcement met by many a happy neighbor.

• [Lit at Lark’s Amy Shearn talked to us](/blog/events/lit-at-larks-amy-shearn-on-this-sundays-kickoff-our-neighborhoods-literary-community-why-its-important-for-writers-to-stick-together) about the reading series’ kickoff – which is today!  

• Never tried Azerbaijani food? [You can change that](/blog/food/at-kavkaz-restaurant-introducing-brooklyn-to-azerbaijan).

*Photo via [theletterkale](http://instagram.com/p/s4XFqjCdVJ/?modal=true&ref=bklyner.com).*