This Week In Ditmas Park
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- Neighbor and The Hester creator Itta Werdiger Roth is setting up actual shop.
- Procrastinators will be glad to hear there’s now a book drop at the Cortelyou Library.
- A few industrious neighbors have trapped and fixed over 100 cats in the area this summer.
- Chef Tom Kearney of The Farm on Adderley was named one of Brooklyn’s top sommeliers.
- Our very own Avi Glickstein looked great in a dress/got some props from The New York Times.
- Local musician Roy Nathanson is apparently an incredible teacher, too.
- Loew’s Kings Theatre manager Dorothy Solomon Panzica celebrated the big 1-0-0.
- Check out some Q Gardens mockups here.
- We learned about Q line construction and a prospective new art center at the CB14 monthly meeting.
- More on the coming Church Avenue reconstruction.
- Wheated has a new, deliciously-exotic pie for Fall.
- A man was arrested for a shooting last weekend at the Parade Ground.
- Election results: Eugene and Jumaane stay in office, de Blasio will face Lhota, Stringer beats Stringer, and more.
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