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# This Week In Ditmas Park
- URL: https://bklyner.com/week-ditmas-park-10-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2014-12-21T14:00:18.000Z
- Updated: 2014-12-22T16:04:01.000Z
- Author: Anna Gustafson
- Tags: Adrien Brody, Batata, Flatbush Business Improvement District, #API-Imported

![Rugby Road crazy colors house](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-21-at-11.41.29-AM.png)

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Here’s a recap of what happened in our neighborhood last week:

• [Hundreds of people gathered on Coney Island Avenue for a vigil](/blog/news/brooklyn-peshawar-message-peace) for the victims of the horrific attack in Peshawar, Pakistan.

• [Police released this video](/blog/crime/video-woman-lets-suspects-coney-island-ave-jewelry-store-armed-robbery) in connection to an armed robbery of a Coney Island Avenue jewelry store.

• [Help the NYPD find 17-year-old Nancy Cortez](/blog/crime/help-find-missing-teenager-nancy-cortez), who was last seen at her home on Beverley Road near Flatbush Avenue.

• A neighbor was [mugged at Beverley and Stratford](/blog/crime/neighbor-mugged-beverley-stratford-early-sunday-morning).

• What the incoming Kings Theatre could [mean for small businesses in our neighborhood](/blog/business/notes-from-the-flatbush-avenue-bids-annual-meeting).

• Still need to do holiday shopping? [Use these coupons for stores on Cortelyou](/blog/business/still-need-to-do-holiday-shopping-use-these-coupons-for-ditmas-park-shops), as well as a couple other places.

• [A MetroPCS is opening](/blog/business/metropcs-open-1410-cortelyou-road) where the Toy Space used to be on Cortelyou.

• Looking for something to do tonight? [Hear three amazing authors read at Lit at Lark](/blog/events/things-ditmas-park-weekend-11), which is free and open to everyone.

• Manhattan Nocturne, an indie crime thriller starring Adrien Brody, [filmed in our area](/blog/art-music/manhattan-nocturne-starring-adrien-brody-film-ditmas-park-tomorrow-december-19).

• Want a new job? [There are a bunch of places in the area that are hiring](/blog/jobs/help-wanted-around-ditmas-park-9).

• [Congratulations to neighbor Ted Schaefer](/blog/neighbors/neighbor-ted-schaefer-new-comedy-web-series-filming-ditmas-park-loves-neighborhood), whose first web series went live this week!

• Mina Marsow, who owns Prospect Gymnastics on Church Avenue, [just won $5,000 from a Brooklyn Library business competition](/blog/business/mina-marsow).

• You are invited to Assemblywoman-elect Rodneyse Bichotte’s inauguration – [but you have to RSVP for free tickets before January 9](/blog/politics/rsvp-free-tickets-assembly-member-elect-rodneyse-bichottes-inauguration).

• [Mallenche Mexican Grill](/blog/food/mallenche-mexican-grill-opens-1621-church-avenue) opened at 1621 Church Avenue.

• With a flurry of sweet potato falafel & more, [Batata celebrated its grand opening](/blog/food/flurry-sweet-potato-falafel-chicken-schnitzel-batata-celebrates-grand-opening).

• [We learned about Nicholas Tanis](/blog/neighbors/nicholas-tanis-decade-snowflakes-holiday-cheer-reminding-people-stop-smell-pine), who for 10 years has been doing the amazing holiday window displays at Almac Hardware.