This Week in Ditmas Park

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

• Locals are opening an Italian restaurant on Cortelyou this fall.

• Reports of a missing boy from Albemarle Road, and a missing girl from NJ.

• Where you can and can’t park near a bus stop.

• Scary report of an armed robbery on East 18th Street.

• We ride the best rated subway in the system.

• A look back at the history of the Flatbush Food Co-op, with ’70s pictures!

• Filming in the area: a Mark Ruffalo movie, and a Paul Rudd movie.

• We’re just trying to keep sinkholes from swallowing cars.

• A heated conversation over viewing pornography at the library.

• Dogs shouldn’t be off-leash in the PS 139 playground.

• Be careful with your electronic gadgets because thieves want to snatch them.

• Sean Casey went to the hospital over a Chihuahua bite, and more SCAR trivia.

• What’s embedded in Coney Island Avenue.

• And why it’s still, after 4 months, hard to navigate traffic on CIA.

• Should we be worried about organized raccoons?

• If area dogs should be worried about anything, it’s mockingbirds, says illustrator Liz Starin.