This Week In Ditmas Park

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

• A 70th Precinct officer was hospitalized with head injuries after riding atop a police cruiser and then falling from the hood.

• How do we stop the hemorrhaging of affordable housing in our neighborhood?

• Always wanted to own a neighborhood bar? Now’s your chance!

• The restaurant at the former Picket Fence space on Cortelyou will soon make its debut.

• Caribbean restaurant Richie Rich is no more.

• Where is there better food – Ditmas Park or space?

• The Key Food on Foster Avenue is undergoing welcomed renovations.

• Café Madeline’s owner will be opening a restaurant at 1616 Cortelyou Road.

• Still need to get rid of your Christmas tree? Here’s how you can do that today.

• Learn about what’s going on in our community at these January meetings.

• Big changes are coming to the borough’s Bally Total Fitness gyms.

• Get a $3,000 grant to make our neighborhood even better.

• Learn about PS 139 at its open house this Wednesday.

• The Gray Lady loves her some Ditmas Park.

• Help Alden Moves Dance Theater open a permanent studio on Church Avenue.

• Bundle up and go to the Cortelyou Greenmarket – and get rewarded for doing that!

• When you can get rid of those leftover food scraps at Compost for Brooklyn this winter.

• Yeah, it was cold, but the snow sure made our neighborhood look pretty.