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# This Week In Ditmas Park
- URL: https://bklyner.com/this-week-in-ditmas-park-83-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2013-11-03T20:00:08.000Z
- Updated: 2014-09-30T12:29:06.000Z
- Author: Nora Whelan
- Tags: #API-Imported

![halloween homer by dumplingboy](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Screen-Shot-2013-11-03-at-2.57.52-PM.png)

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Here’s a recap of the past week:

- Following the [one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy](/blog/volunteering/one-year-after-sandy-honoring-neighbors-near-far), we took [a moment to remember](/blog/neighbors/in-remembrance-of-jessie-streich-kest-jacob-vogelman) Jessie Streich-Kest and Jacob Vogelman.
- Generous neighbors are helping us get closer and closer to [bringing 500 turkeys to local families this Thanksgiving](/blog/food/thanksgiving-turkey-drive-432-families-30-days-to-go).
- Neighbors dressed up and reveled in the local spirit at [Halloween parades](/blog/holidays/halloween-scenes-from-around-ditmas-park).
- Northbound side platforms reopened at local subway stations, but overall [nobody gets what took so long](/blog/transportation/this-weeks-b-q-subway-service-changes-21).
- Local Ocean Parkway intersections [are getting some safety improvements](/blog/transportation/ocean-parkway-safety-improvements-are-underway).
- Two neighbors were lost in a [tragic fire on E 15th Street](/blog/crime/fatal-fire-early-this-morning-on-east-15th-street) and Avenue I.
- We picked our [top 10 creepy places to visit](/blog/holidays/local-haunts-10-spine-tingling-spots-to-visit-in-around-ditmas-park) in and around the neighborhood.
- These [Ditmas Park born and bred kittens](/blog/animals/kittens-for-adoption-after-neighbors-successful-stratford-tnr-effort) are for adoption.
- Local filmmaker Michael K. Anderson [broke new ground with a web series](/blog/art-music/neighbor-michael-k-anderson-takes-the-wonder-show-from-podcast-to-web-series).
- A neighbor shared his [recipe that can be made with apples](/blog/food/baking-with-the-greenmarket-gregs-aunts-almond-apple-tart) from the Cortelyou Greenmarket.

*Photo by [dumplingboy](http://instagram.com/p/gN2hs%5Fgiri/?ref=bklyner.com)*