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# This Week In Ditmas Park
- URL: https://bklyner.com/week-ditmas-park-2-ditmas-park/
- Published: 2014-10-19T13:00:30.000Z
- Updated: 2014-10-19T20:06:19.000Z
- Author: Anna Gustafson
- Tags: Faye Penn, Flatbush Farm Share, #API-Imported

![autumn fall trees](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-18-at-5.11.36-PM.png)

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Here is what happened in our neighborhood last week:

• Our neighbor, Leonard Phillips, was killed in a [home invasion at 379 Rugby Road](/blog/crime/man-shot-379-rugby-road) Wednesday morning.

• [We remembered Leonard](/blog/news/remembering-leonard-phillips) as an incredibly [kind man who was an accomplished auto mechanic](/blog/crime/remembering-leonard-phillips-kind-neighbor-accomplished-automobile-mechanic).

• There have been no arrests in the home invasion yet, though [police created this poster about the crime](/blog/crime/police-release-reward-poster-information-home-invasion-379-rugby-road), which upset many neighbors.

• Following the home invasion, a neighbor is [forming an emotional support group](/blog/news/home-invasion-neighbor-will-start-emotional-support-group) for the community.  

• You can help us and CAMBA [bring 500 turkeys to local families in need](/blog/volunteering/help-cambas-food-pantry-bring-turkey-dinners-500-local-families-need-thanksgiving) this Thanksgiving.

• [Car break-ins](/blog/crime/car-break-ins-east-18th-street-reported) were reported on E. 18th Street.

• Police are asking for help finding a man who they said [tried to rob a Chase bank on Flatbush Avenue](/blog/crime/man-tried-rob-bank-flatbush-avenue-police-turn-public-help-find).  

• And a neighbor is asking for us to [keep an eye out for two bicycles that were stolen](/blog/crime/neighbors-home-broken-bike-tools-stolen).  

• You can now [sign up for the Flatbush Farm Share’s winter CSA](/blog/greenmarket/flatbush-farm-share-winter-csa-now-open).  

• Restaurants around the borough, including in our neighborhood, [will be participating in “Dine in Brooklyn,”](/blog/food/castello-plan-lea-kavkaz-offer-prix-fixe-deals-dine-brooklyn-kicking-oct-20) which starts Monday.

• [More than 20 restaurants and stores will be participating in Tuesday’s Cortelyou at Twiligh](/blog/food/eat-drink-shop-support-local-schools-cortelyou-twilight-tuesday-october-21)t, the proceeds of which go to local schools.  

•[ ](/blog/library/attention-book-lovers-cortelyou-library-friends-will-holds-its-annual-book-sale-on-saturday-october-18)The incredibly talented [Inbal Hever spoke to us about her passion for music and an upcoming concert in our neighborhood](/blog/events/inbal-hever-singing-power-music-working-children-temple-beth-emeth).  

• [Neighbor Faye Penn on five years of Brokelyn](/blog/neighbors/cheap-date-faye-penn-five-years-brokelyn), including how it started and where it’s going.

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