This Week In Ditmas Park

This week in Ditmas Park, students enrich the neighborhood with vibrant murals; the owners of Madina open Kohinoor restaurant on Cortelyou Road; neighborhood parents petition to make the new proposed PS/IS on Coney Island Avenue exclusively a middle school; and we mark the beginning of Ramadan.

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

• Buffalo’s Famous opens on Church Ave, serving Western New York cuisine with a local touch.

• An illegal gambling arrest at Newkirk Avenue salon leads to business closure.

• Mayor Bill DeBlasio and City Council make a handshake deal over the 2017 fiscal budget.

• At age 87, a Brooklyn College security officer achieves his life-long goal.

• The community mourns a devoted father that died in his Ditmas childhood home.

• An Afrio-Latin Jazz program at PS 217 really makes students swing.

• The Brooklyn Public Library kicks off its summer reading challenge.