This Week In Ditmas Park

This week in Ditmas Park, readers discussed race and gentrification, we sampled yet another great Mexican eatery and saw amazing shows at Flatbush Avenue’s Kings Theatre, we traveled back to the time when all of Flatbush was farmland, and more.

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

• A 44-year-old man was assaulted at the Church Avenue B/Q subway station in what police say was a bias attack.
• It got colder and colder until we were hit with a full-scale polar vortex.
• Neighbors prepared a Valentine’s Day celebration at the Kensington family homeless shelter which is now nearly full.
• Bakery Mi Pueblita is serving up Mexican delicacies on Coney Island Avenue.
• Church Avenue is one of six commercial strips in NYC now targeted by the Mayor’s CleaNYC program.
• Wilco played an amazing show at the Kings Theatre.
• Kensington is one of the healthiest neighborhoods in NYC when it comes to asthma and infant mortality rates.
• Flatbush’s community board -and others- are asking tough questions about the Mayor’s affordable housing plan.
• We discovered that Flatbush had one of the worst bed bug problems of any NYC neighborhood in 2014. Has the situation improved?
• State Assembly Woman Rodneyse Bichotte made a humorous, and ironic, gaffe at her state of the district address.

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