Ditmas Park, New York’s answer to suburbia. The place where all the cool kids go when they want to show that growing up in Montclair or White Plains or Brookline wasn’t actually half-bad. The place where you can still walk to the subway or down to Cortelyou for killer coffee and the farmers market.
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“There’s really nothing else like this in the city,” said broker Marie-Ange Augustin, pulling the curtain back to reveal white picket fences, sprawling Victorian mansions and a tattooed hipster pushing a baby stroller.
Indeed, Ditmas Park, just across the park from Park Slope, feels more like an upstate suburb than a neighborhood off the Read More
"The Q is a solid train. And Ditmas Park is our amazing, affordable, tree-lined little secret (shh!). But please don’t let south Brooklyn turn into Williamsburg! It’s lovely as it is without hordes of Facebook-addicted, angsty, post-college types in skinny jeans! Keep it quiet and nerdy–much better that way." ["Brooklyn, The Borough: Can the Read More
The “chief insitgator and CEO” of Ditmas Park’s Vox Pop cafe, Sander Hicks, is looking for partners to take his cafe national, the Brooklyn Papers reports. An excellent investment opportunity–if you think there are 170 other neighbrohoods in the country that would go for “Halloween masks of unpopular presidents”–to say nothing of 9-11 Read More
The last installment of Curbed’s 2005 awards came through this afternoon. Rather unscientific reader polling seems to make Prospect Heights the neighborhood of the year for readers of the real-estate Web log, unseating last year’s champion, Fort Greene.
The neighborhood, which is on the other side from Manhattan of every other Brooklyn neighborhood your Read More
It’s been a while since anybody picked up the shrinking alt-alt weekly, but the Sun has news today that the current regime at the New York Press has been replaced by my friend and Ditmas Park neighbor Harry Siegel, an occasional Observer columnist.
The Press, if you’ve read it in the last year Read More
