This Week In Ditmas Park

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Here’s a recap of the past week:

• If you thought a bomb scare on Cortelyou Road was the biggest news of the week…

• …then you missed the kittens that stopped trains in their tracks.

• Check out our interview with Mathieu Eugene (and the rest of the candidates), then vote on 9/10!

• Who delivers the best pizza in Ditmas Park?

• Two states are now looking into cars with Iowa license plates parked in our area.

• A plaque was dedicated in Newkirk Plaza to the memory of Almac Hardware’s Paul Goldman.

• Campaign posters are split on our streets, but voters in our poll seem to have a choice for City Council.

• A man was arrested for allegedly shooting a 3-year-old boy in an E 21st St apartment.

• The Department of Sanitation isn’t issuing too many tickets these days.

• Jody Baty has opened a massage therapy practice in the area.

• The fancy new comfort station should open in the Parade Ground this month.

• The city is looking to cut down 2,000 potentially dangerous trees.

• A new halal pizza place is opening on CIA at Cortelyou.

• The dangerous Ocean Pkwy/Church Ave intersection will finally see some safety improvements.