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Oscars at 773

March 7th, 2010 7:15 pm

Cablevision customers — that is, almost everybody in this part of Brooklyn — can’t see the Oscars tonight because of a dispute between the cable and ABC7, which is airing the show.

But the Oscars will be on at 773 Lounge, on Coney Island Avenue just south of Cortelyou.

They have DirecTV, says the bartender, “because we’re classy like that.”

Alternately, Cablevision says they’re making their pay-per-view movie selection free as a kind of consolation prize, so you staying home is an option.

If you know of any other local spots showing the ceremony, let us know.

UPDATE: ABC just came back on, a little before 9:00 p.m.

- Ben

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photo of the day.

March 6th, 2010 11:30 am



botanica, originally uploaded by flatbushnelson.

- nelson

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We Have Arrived

March 5th, 2010 10:27 pm

We’ve noticed that Brownstoner has been paying quite a bit of attention to DP, but this really does it. A neighbor emails:

Now I now we have really crossed over into being a fashionable neighborhood.  The Met food near the subway is now selling sushi and have put in a little olive bar!   Check it out.  Strange times..

- Liena

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Creative Women’s Networking Salon

March 5th, 2010 5:02 pm

Just a reminder for tonight’s creative women’s networking salon 7:00pm – 9:30pm at Kris Waldherr Art and Words studio-gallery (1501 Newkirk Avenue, entrance on Marlborough Road). See you there.

- Liena

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Neighbors

March 5th, 2010 10:53 am

A neighbor gets some love from the Times.

- Liena

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Let’s Improve the Neighborhood!

March 5th, 2010 10:35 am

Spring 2010 NYBN flyerFrom Nathan Cole at the Citizen’s Committee:

Have a great idea for a community improvement project? Apply for a New Yorkers for Better Neighborhoods Award! Citizens Committee for New York City awards grants of $500 to $3,000 to volunteer-led groups to work on projects that bring neighbors together and that have a positive impact on the community.

In addition to small grants, we offer one-on-one project planning assistance, skills-building workshops, and a resource center with access to computer stations, conference space and an equipment loan library.

Our next grant deadline is March 14. For a grant application and for more info, call/email Arif Ullah or Saleen Shah at 212.989.0909/grants@citizensnyc.org

- Liena

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Fabulous Neighbors

March 5th, 2010 10:29 am

There are some fabulous neighbors living over in Kensington – WNYC likes Angie Pontani, a burlesque performer by night, a master crafter by day.

- Liena

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Hoping for a Break

March 5th, 2010 9:55 am

The Daily News reports this morning on the case of Kristine Kupka, who disappeared from her Ditmas Park house 12 years ago:

Investigators hope they are tantalizingly close to solving the decade-long disappearance of a pregnant Baruch College student – but two days of searching a Queens basement has yielded nothing.

Kristine Kupka, 28, vanished in October 1998, but her body has never been found. While suspicion has long centered on the married professor whose child she was carrying, he has not been charged.

- Liena

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Photo of the day.

March 5th, 2010 9:44 am



peetsters, originally uploaded by adventuresinpitasitting.

- nelson

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Coney Island Avenue Presentation

March 4th, 2010 3:06 pm

At the meeting last Wednesday, Pratt Center for Community Development presented the survey done by its graduate students on the current conditions on Coney Island Avenue. Here it is, along with the notes to the presentation after the jump. The folks present at the meeting provided some feedback, but if you have some time on your hands and care to look it over and comment, it would be much appreciated. (We seem to be on their required reading list!) Thanks Paula, for emailing these over.

CIA Presentation–existing & Emerging Conditions

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- Liena

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San Remo ROTD on Brownstoner

March 4th, 2010 2:52 pm

Brownstoner has San Remo Pizzeria on Cortelyou as its restaurant of the day (ROTD).

- Liena

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Filming on Beverley

March 4th, 2010 9:19 am

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by Nelson Ryland

- Liena

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March 4th, 2010 9:07 am



cardinal, sparrows ditmas, originally uploaded by flatbushnelson.

- nelson

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Beverley and East 2nd

March 3rd, 2010 10:50 pm

The DOT will be looking into traffic at the intersection of Beverley and East 2nd at noon on March 19; stop by to tell them if you’re concerned.

- Ben

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Castello Plan Update

March 3rd, 2010 10:36 pm

castellodumb

The Costello Plan will be closed for a couple of days because they unexpectedly had to replace the dumbwaiter.

- Liena

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Doctor Needed

March 3rd, 2010 9:21 pm

A neighbor in need emails:

I come down with strep throat. I’m new to the area and need to find a doctor. I’ve walked past the walk-in clinics on Foster Ave and they seem a little crowded and well a little grimy. Any other walk-in clinics around the area or doctor offices?

- Liena

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Kensington Flea Market

March 3rd, 2010 3:32 pm

Mark your calendars:

FOGP Flea Market Flyer

- Liena

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70th Precinct January Meeting Update

March 3rd, 2010 3:27 pm

The 70th Precinct Community Council just posted the minutes of their January meeting on their blog, http://70PctCC.blogspot.com. The short – total number of crimes was down 12%, the blue van (WPIX & Daily News got it wrong) was in the Bronx, and these are the guys you need to know:

Captain Tom Pascal. If you have any information or questions regarding illegal drugs or drug sales, please talk to him.
Captain Peter Venice. He is in charge of all the IMPACT cops in the IMPACT zones.
Captain Mike Giovanelli is involved in several areas of the precinct’s work; but the two main issues that he is involved with is identifying and tracking bad criminals in the precinct, the guys that carry firearms, and those who are dealing drugs and doing robberies. Secondly, he is in charge of traffic stats within the precinct. He goes over all the accidents, where the accidents are happening, as well as where the summonses are issued, in order to help reduce the number of people involved in car accidents.
Full minutes here.
- Liena

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Mimi’s Empire

March 3rd, 2010 3:10 pm

Serious Eats has a seriously long and lovely review of Mimi’s and Castello Plan, with gorgeous images of the food. (Thanks Carey!)

- Liena

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Market in The Times

March 3rd, 2010 9:35 am

Florence Fabricant at the Market:

Some items, including various olives, spice mixes and a few pastries like sesame sandwich cookies, are made by Mimi’s. Others are from local purveyors, like Mast Brothers chocolate, Brooklyn Brine pickles and Hot Bread kitchen flatbreads. Imported labneh in oil, pomegranate molasses, Spanish quince paste and cheeses and various kinds of dried beans and lentils are also sold, as is fresh bread from Balthazar and Royal Crown.

- Liena

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Photo of the day.

March 3rd, 2010 9:26 am



drowning man, originally uploaded by flatbushnelson.

- nelson

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Friday’s Commute

March 2nd, 2010 3:42 pm

These pictures are my commute on Friday. The Q stopped running and I was able to walk around PPS which took on an otherworldly quality…

- nelson

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Protesting a Bad Landlord

March 2nd, 2010 1:37 pm

To follow up on our earlier post about East 22nd street building in desperate need of repairs, Aga Trojniak of the Flatbush Development Corporation emails that:

“Tenants and FDC have identified the main individual behind East 22nd Realty LLC (the entity that owns the buildings). His name is Samuel Fleischman, and we’ll be protesting outside his house tonight at 7:30PM: 1372 47th Street, Brooklyn. Please come out in support!”

Aga says that FDC has been organizing the two buildings for the past year.

“With a lot of work by dedicated tenants and South Brooklyn Legal Services, we received some (limited) response from the landlord early on, but things have significantly deteriorated since then.

Needless to say, NYC’s building code enforcement system is clearly broken when something like this can go on for such a long time, even with devoted tenants and community organizations like FDC and SBLS working on the issue. To make matters worse, these types of conditions are being repeated thousands of times all over NYC as landlords withhold repairs to get long-term tenants out of increasingly desirable neighborhoods.”

- Liena

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Restaurant Week Link

March 2nd, 2010 1:29 pm

The Brooklyn Restaurant week will take place March 15-25, and the link to the list of all the participation restaurants is now live. Stop by the Picket Fence, still the lone participant from our neighborhood, and check out what other neighborhoods have to offer. Any neighbor favorites on the list?

- Liena

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Taking a Landlord to Court

March 2nd, 2010 1:15 pm

NY1 reports on tenants taking their landlord to court in Ditmas Park:

With the tiles disintegrating, cracks zig-zagging along the wall, and the ceiling sagging from water damage, Gloria Campbell says she loathes stepping into her bathroom. But she says she’s been forced to live with it because the owners, East 22 Realty will not make repairs.

“Do your job. You want us to pay rent, fix up the place so it’s livable,” Campbell said. “We’re not animals. We’re people.”

Campbell and her neighbors in this 16-unit building in Ditmas Park say they’ve been living with exposed walls, crumbling floors and chronic water leaks for months. Last August, the Department of Housing and Preservation took the rare step of launching court action against the company, which faces 172 building code violations.

Full story and video here. I believe the same building was in the news last fall . The address is 596 East 22nd Street, between Newkirk and Foster, the “greater Ditmas Park”, so to say.

- Liena

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