week in review

This Week In Ditmas Park

Nora Whelan

18 Aug 2013 — 1 min read

art deco apartment building by brooklynwonder

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Here’s a recap of the past week:

Orange is the New Black filmed in the neighborhood, and may have had a legit martini truck.

Shayna’s Restaurant will be featured in Saveur Magazine next year.

Local bartenders, baristas, and waiters got their say.

Neighbors shared memories of the 2003 Blackout.

We wonder how this week’s ruling on stop and frisk will affect our area.

Landlord Moshe Piller agreed to do much-needed repairs at 119 E 19th Street.

Picketing started again at Golden Farm in Kensington.

Many New York neighborhoods lost hyperlocal news site Patch.

TriBeCa Pediatrics is on its way to Coney Island Avenue.

A neighbor narrowly escaped a mugging on Ditmas Avenue.

Some residents are fed up with their neighbors’ fireworks.

A pedestrian struck on Flatbush Avenue was transported to Kings County Hospital.

Get a look inside Leon’s Fantasy Cut from Brooklyn Independent Television

Some local musicians are doing big things.

Westminster is sinking.

Photo by brooklynwonder

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