This Week In Ditmas Park

This week in Ditmas Park, a bathroom ceiling collapsed at 2010 Newkirk Avenue and the tenant has been unable to reach the owner of the troubled building; Kensington’s Mamnunul Haq was honored by the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats; and a new podcast will be exploring “Flatbush & Main.”

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

• Elected officials are pushing for French Creole and Russian interpreters at polling sites.
• Charges will be dropped against an area woman arrested for assaulting a police officer.
• The Windsor Terrace Food Co-op was featured on French TV.
• We sampled chicken curry at Jamaican eatery Exquisite Supreme.
• Ditmas Park paid tribute to Merle Haggard and his Bakersfield sound.
• Ambulances for Hatzolah volunteers and three other projects won the participatory budget vote in Councilmember Greenfield’s district.
• The 66th Precinct detective questioned in an ongoing Federal corruption probe is quietly trying to retire.
• We traveled back in time to when Church Avenue was crooked.
• With youth unemployment at 29 percent, local City Councilmembers are calling for the expansion of the City’s summer jobs program.
• The City and BP’s Office are asking local residents to help keep storm drains clear.
• The man who preyed on elderly women for months was arrested.
• Area residents are signing up for farm shares so they can eat local this summer.
• Work has begun on an $8.5 million project to make Ocean Parkway safer.
• The skateboarding thief who has been stealing packages off area porches was arrested.