We know that there are other great local blogs out there – we seem to discover them slowly – and this morning discovered the Ditmas Park Blog. They’re far more organized than we are, so it’s a fair bet that we’re going to plagiarizing as much as we can get away with as soon as possible.
According to NewGeography.com,
Once seemingly on its last legs, the neighborhood now pulses with a contagious energy.
That energy gave birth to the Ditmas Park Blog, founded in early 2007 by Ben Smith and Liena Zagare. The blog sends local information and gossip beyond the neighborhood’s families, reaching growing numbers of singles as well. This was the first institution to target singles as much as families, extending the neighborhood’s expanding demographic boundaries. Zagare, her finger on the neighborhood’s pulse, went on to found the Ditmas Workspace in summer, 2008. She created a shared workspace in a former doctor’s office. Another former doctor’s office, also on the ground floor of a large house, has a neighborhood yoga studio and several artists working in small, separate spaces. That’s the “new use of old space” that’s helping to reconfigure our neighborhood for the 21st century.
Jan Rosenberg, Gentrification from the inside out in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park, dated 10/15/08 on NewGeography.com
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