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# This Week In Ditmas Park
- URL: https://bklyner.com/this-week-in-ditmas-park-88-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2013-12-08T19:00:09.000Z
- Updated: 2014-09-30T05:22:09.000Z
- Author: Nora Whelan
- Tags: #API-Imported

![tree bark by jasminzorlu](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screen-Shot-2013-12-08-at-1.33.49-PM.png)

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Here’s a recap of the past week:

- Neighbors mourn the loss of [Will Gary](/blog/neighbors/in-remembrance-of-will-gary), who passed on Tuesday at the age of 46.
- Here’s [how you helped hundreds of local families](/blog/holidays/after-cambas-successful-turkey-drive-local-families-have-a-happy-thanksgiving) have an incredible Thanksgiving.
- [Three neighbors](/blog/art-music/neighbors-andie-springer-katie-cox-and-conrad-winslow-on-music-from-alaska-to-ditmas-park) talk about the music festival they started in Homer, AK, and the parallels between there and Ditmas Park.
- We consider [“Flatbush” vs. “Ditmas Park”](/blog/opinion/when-it-comes-to-ditmas-park-whats-in-a-name) vs. “NoProPaSo” and beyond.
- Prospect Park’s Lakeside [announced an opening date](/blog/kids/prospect-parks-lakeside-to-open-december-20).
- [The skinniest apartment building ever](/blog/real-estate/new-apartment-building-planned-for-beverley-road) is planned for Beverley Road.
- Looking for a Christmas tree? [Here’s where to get one](/blog/holidays/where-to-get-christmas-trees-in-around-ditmas-park).
- Lauren Elvers Collins of the Church Avenue BID [is set to manage the Flatbush BID as well](/blog/announcements/church-avenue-bids-lauren-elvers-collins-to-join-flatbush-avenue-bid-as-well).
- Another [kale caper](/blog/garden/healthy-hooligan-hits-tracey-hohmans-kale-crop-again) his Tracey Hohman’s yard.
- After over a decade on Foster, [zoning conflicts forced Vaquita Cheese to close](/blog/business/following-zoning-problems-vaquita-cheese-on-foster-closes-down).
- [A man was shot on Tennis Court](/blog/crime/man-shot-last-night-on-church-avenue-e-18th-street), though it’s not clear whether the wounds were self-inflicted.
- 26-year-old Dwight Brathwaite [was stabbed to death](/blog/crime/26-year-old-man-stabbed-to-death-this-am-on-e-26th-street) on E 26th Street.
- [Church Avenue got tagged up.](/blog/crime/several-storefronts-vandalized-on-church-avenue)
- The neighborhood got [more bike racks](/blog/transportation/bike-racks-have-landed-on-church-coney-island-avenues).

*Photo by [jasminzorlu](http://instagram.com/p/hjGzBgtP5H/?ref=bklyner.com)*