This Week In Ditmas Park

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Here’s a recap of the past week:

• Welcome the new Indian restaurant Anarkali to Church Avenue!

• The National played a surprise show at Sycamore to celebrate their new album.

• Milk & Honey is looking good…now if it would just open.

• Meanwhile, the Ditmas Fitness off-shoot DF Studios may open on June 3.

• The NYPD are looking for help identifying a suspect in a Q train cell phone snatch.

• Sanitation wants this donation bin gone as much as neighbors do.

• Food banks did well after GoogaMooga’s Sunday cancellation, but what about everyone else?

• Find inexpensive Mexican pastries for breakfast at La Flor de Santa Ines.

• A DIY pest control store just opened on Coney Island Avenue.

• And a new halal grocery is coming to the street a few blocks south.

• Will there be a new Democratic candidate for Brooklyn Borough President?

• Desperately seeking ice cream…

• It’s super easy to nominate the Cortelyou Library to win $10,000!

• A diner and Bowlarama in 1961, motorcycles in 2013.

• What you need to know to be prepared for tornado season.

• A building for sale on Avenue H has neighbors dreaming of coffee and comics.

• Some of the architectural oddities of Ditmas Park.

• They’re mostly helicopters or pollynoses to you guys.

• Share your recommendations for vacuum cleaner repair shops and architects.

• Get ’em while you can: dosas at Madina.

• Brooklyn ARTery is moving across the street, as its current building may be knocked down.

• Not sure what to buy at the Greenmarket today? Try this recipe for a chive blossom omelet.

Photo by sssnole