This Week in Ditmas Park

It’s still a weirdly warm December here in Ditmas Park. To keep up with all this news from the neighborhood, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our daily newsletter. If you’ve got a story idea, a question, a complaint, anything, send us an email at ditmasparkcorner@gmail.com.

Here’s a recap of the past week:

• Jon Kest passed away this week. Tributes came in from all over the city and beyond.

• Have toys to give away this holiday season? Consider the Sandy toy drive run by WCS with a reward of a ticket to the Bronx Zoo.

• Where do new New Yorkers live? A great interactive map gives us clues.

• First we went to the moon and now Brooklyn Dollar Vans have been mapped. What’s the next mystery of the universe to be solved?

• Fiske Terrace and Midwood Park now have Historic District street signs lining their streets.

• Rabbi Heidi Hoover talks latkes and Ditmas Park listens.

• Cortelyou, Beverley and Parkside subway stations will undergo renovations in 2013.

• Have all your shopping done? Here is the Cortelyou Road Holiday Gift Guide.

• Don’t be careless with your gas canisters after Sandy. Store them safely.

• City and State says Jumaane Williams is the 97th most powerful person in NYC.

• Brooklyn Industries is opening on December 16 or 17.

• A Midwood Social Studies teacher played an instrumental role in getting more and more kids on bicycles.

• Erasmus won the PSAL football championships in Yankee Stadium.

• Here’s a great video of a local opera company rehearsing Hansel and Gretel.

• There’s a new mural up on East 16th street. Do you like it?

• Ditmas Park’s fiction writers are holding a reading this Tuesday at Lark.

Photo: jkoppel