This Week in Ditmas Park

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Here’s a recap of the first few days of 2013:

• Neighbors shared resolutions to be healthy, improve the community, stop swearing, and more.

• Palermo Pizza will reopen on CIA & Cortelyou, selling $1 slices.

• Across CIA, a commercial opening has some of you hoping for Vietnamese food.

• iPhones continue to be a target of thieves.

• But at least one thief, suspected in a home robbery, has been arrested.

• Two public hearings are scheduled about the MTA and the NYCHA.

• Classes start soon for budding musical geniuses.

• A map shows a rise in home prices in our area, but not many of you buy it.

• Some people rang in the new year with gunfire, and filmed themselves doing it.

• Here’s how you can recycle your Christmas tree.

• A Community Supported Fishery will be making deliveries at Sycamore.

• An Australian visitor met some of our neighbors and took lovely photos of them.

• Finally, if you’re feeling city fatigue, walk Church Avenue to reinvigorate yourself.

Photo by ryandrummerboy