And, now, from our friends at the Center for the Urban Environment, here is this weekend’s very interesting tour:

Ditmas Park. Sunday, November 23, 2-4 pm– with Francis Morrone. Ditmas Park is one of the most popular neighborhoods in Brooklyn even as its splendid “Victorian” houses have ceased to be bargains. The streets of the Ditmas [...]

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The Farm on Adderly is not the only reason to go to Ditmas Park. (Attention: this is a joke. Do not be offended. If this had been a real insult, you would have been instructed to click away.) The Halloween decorations are pretty freakin’ good too. Here’s a whole slide show of them. Enjoy.–Flatbush Vegan

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Yes, it is October and in some cases it means Oktoberfest(s). Here are the details:
Sycamore, the new (and only) bar on Ditmas Park’s Cortelyou Road is having an Oktober Fest Celebration for twelve full hours on Saturday, October 18 from noon til midnight. Come on out and enjoy $3 beers, $2 grilled sausages, [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn]
This is Ram’s Roti Shop in Ditmas Park, offering the taste of a mother’s love. The image comes to us from Brit in Brooklyn blogger and GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch.

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn]
Here’s a fun store window from Ditmas Park courtesy of GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch.

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“A passer-by sends in this picture of a confrontation on Stratford off Cortelyou, where the developers of the Cortelyou Condos at 1103 Cortelyou Road are putting the finishing touches on the new condo building by paving their neighbors’ curb cut. There’s a dispute over the property line — not something that can be litigated here [...]

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For a “Ditmas Park Alternative” look to…Staten Island. “I’m not sure if this is a compliment or an insult. On the compliment front, Ditmas Park seems to mean ‘charming old house.’ On the other hand, it seems to mean … remote. I mean, we may not live right over the bridge, but we don’t have [...]

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Local filmmaker and poet Stepanie Gray is doing a reading poems from her book Heart Stoner Bingo at Vox Pop in Ditmas Park on Saturday (2/16) at 7PM. She emailed us to say that several of the poems she’ll be reading “are specifically about NYC and neighborhood themes/gentrification like Park Slope, East Village and Wburg/Bushwick.” [...]

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There’s a new blog in Ditmas Park called–surprise–the Ditmas Park Blog. It’s the work of Ben Smith and his wife Liena, and looks to be a very valuable addition to the information flow about Ditmas Park. Mr. Smith an NYC blogging veteran. He’s a staff writer for The Politico and a co-founder of Room Eight. [...]

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