This Week In Ditmas Park
This week in Ditmas Park, a garbage truck got stuck in a sinkhole, police officers are under investigation, Di Fara is opening a dessert shop, and more.
Here’s a recap of what happened in our neighborhood:
- Local musicians have opened a studio and are offering music lessons to the community.
- A garbage truck got stuck in a sinkhole in a parking lot near Flatbush Avenue on Tuesday morning.
- The neighborhood has seen a 200 percent rise in vagrancy complaints over last year.
- Local favorite Mimi’s Hummus has opened a location in Manhattan‘s new UrbanSpace Vanderbilt.
- Try Austrian favorites like Beef Guylash and Weiner Schnitzel at the new Werkstatt restaurant.
- A new shop offering Vietnamese sandwiches and bubble tea has opened on Cortelyou Road.
- Police are looking for suspects who took $3000 worth of denim from a Flatbush Avenue store.
- Another new food spot opens in the Prospect Park Picnic House.
- Di Fara owners are opening a dessert shop called Di Fara Dolce Fatts around the corner from the pizza shop.
- Join Council Member Mathieu Eugene to decide where money should be spent in District 40 through Participatory Budgeting.
- Two 70th Precinct police officers have been put on modified duty pending investigation of a fatal motorcycle crash near Park Circle.
- Do you need an adorable new kitten?
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