This Week in Ditmas Park

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Here’s a recap of the past week:

• Fancy ice cream on Cortelyou?

• A B68 bus driver was stabbed with a syringe, and the suspect is still at large.

• The 70th Precinct says crime is down 1% for the year. (In April it was down 10%.)

• Avi Glickstein is writing a what sounds live a very cool theatrical production.

• A new mural is coming to E 16th.

• The Naturalist Sage of Brooklyn was appreciated all over the web.

• Please keep an eye out for missing teen Tzbi Stolzenberg.

• The B and 6 are connected at long last. A happy ending to a romance long in the making.

• Santigold spotted in Ditmas Park.

• Neighbor Eric Pesso’s work might be headed for the Brooklyn Museum!

• Tips from Midwood and Murrow about applying to high schools.

• We met some neighbors who dig in the dirt at the Flatbush Community Garden.

• Think your commute is bad? We bet it’s better than a 50-minute ride in a horse carriage.

• A Coney Island Ave restaurant was closed down by the Health Department.

• Ditmas Park is the #7 most livable hood in Brooklyn?

• CATS. Beautiful kitties for adoption.

Photo of graffiti at Cortelyou Road subway station by neighbor Zoe Meleo-Erwin.