This Week In Ditmas Park

This week in Ditmas Park, we looked at the changing face of the Community Police Officer, a Bernie Sanders ad filmed at Brooklyn College hit the TV airwaves, and the taste of western New York is coming soon to Church Avenue.

Here’s a recap of what’s been happening this week:

• We track the Presidential primary campaign trail all over Brooklyn.
• Spring is here and we visit the best places to buy plants in our area.
• Ditmas Park native and jazz saxophonist Roy Nathanson talks music and coming home.
• Participatory budgeting voting results are in for districts represented by Councilmembers Eugene, Lander and Williams.
• Presidential candidate John Kasich visits Borough Park and talks Old Testament.
• There was more package thievery-by-skateboard in our area — and now the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is involved.
• There were two phone thefts — and some drama — along the B/Q subway line Monday.
• Di Fara’s Pizza is not fretting about the potential sale of its Avenue J home.
• The cuisine of Uzbekistan — and the romance of the Silk Road — have a new home on Coney Island Avenue.
• A Yiddish-speaking street gang called ‘The Forks’ has been linked to the NYPD bribery scandal.
• A Coney Island Avenue travel agent has been indicted for stealing over $350,000 from 25-plus Pakistani customers.