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# This Week In Ditmas Park
- URL: https://bklyner.com/this-week-in-ditmas-park-128-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2014-10-05T11:00:16.000Z
- Updated: 2014-10-08T00:36:30.000Z
- Author: Anna Gustafson
- Tags: gap, #API-Imported

![fall autumn trees](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-04-at-8.41.33-PM.png)

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Here’s a recap of what happened last week:

• So many famous people in the hood! This week, there was [Steven Spielberg](/blog/photos/spielbergs-st-james-place-starts-filming-in-ditmas-park) and [Neil Diamond](/blog/photos/neil-diamond-returns-to-erasmus-hall-high-school-to-perform-a-free-concert).

• We debated whether or not there’s [too much filming happening in Ditmas Park](/blog/art-music/is-there-too-much-filming-happening-in-ditmas-park).

• The medical examiner said a Midwood gym owner who was trying to protect his girlfriend from an attacker [died from a police bullet](/blog/crime/medical-examiner-police-bullet-killed-rafael-laureano-the-midwood-gym-owner-who-tried-to-save-his-girlfriend-from-knife-wielding-man).  

• A parent is reminding neighbors to [respect children with special needs](/blog/kids/think-before-you-honk-a-neighbor-reminds-us-about-the-importance-of-respecting-children-on-the-school-bus).

• Police said if bicyclists don’t slow down in Prospect Park, [they’ll bring out the radar gun](/blog/news/prospect-park-safety-in-the-spotlight-again-following-deadly-cyclist-pedestrian-crash-in-central-park).

• Legislators are calling for [more affordable housing](/blog/politics/councilmen-jumaane-williams-mathieu-eugene-join-other-lawmakers-to-call-for-affordable-housing-reform-repeal-of-urstadt-law).  

• [Gap opened on Flatbush Avenue](/blog/business/gap-factory-store-opens-on-flatbush-avenue-across-from-the-kings-theatre), just across from the Kings Theatre.  

• We got a glimpse of what [Cortelyou Road was like almost 100 years ago](/blog/photos/photos-a-view-of-flatbush-from-long-ago).  

• Everyone [can’t wait for Hunger Pang](/blog/food/hunger-pang-tops-list-of-most-anticipated-restaurant-openings-in-brooklyn-this-fall) to open.

• Get in the Halloween spirit by [watching the 1925 horror film version of “The Phantom of the Opera”](/blog/art-music/watch-the-1925-silent-horror-film-version-of-the-phantom-of-the-opera-at-our-lady-of-refuge-on-october-17) at Our Lady of Refgue.  

•[ Cortelyou Library will hold its annual book sale](/blog/library/attention-book-lovers-cortelyou-library-friends-will-holds-its-annual-book-sale-on-saturday-october-18) on October 18.  

• Neighbors were outraged to learn that they’ll likely be [without cooking gas for at least another month](/blog/news/neighbors-at-146-east-19th-street-outraged-to-learn-they-will-be-without-cooking-gas-for-another-month).  

• And, finally, [Tater-Tot needs a home!](/blog/animals/tater-tot-the-cat-looking-for-a-home)

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