Spartan Gym

Spartan Gym, a no-frills gym, has opened on Coney Island Avenue. They are offering a 1 year membership for $200 until 3/31/08. They are located at 166 Coney Island Avenue. You can call 718.434.2300.

Q & A with Laurel Axen - Ancient Current Acupuncture & Chinese Herbs

Laurel Axen, L.Ac is a local resident and mom who works at Midwood Wellness, 1318 Avenue H on the corner of East 14th Street in Brooklyn.

What is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is one facet of Traditional Chinese Medicine that involves the insertion of fine needles into specific points along the body. The study and practical application of Chinese medicine to treat pain and disease has been around for over 2500 years. Among the components of Traditional Chinese Medicine are herbal and nutritional therapy, exercise, meditation, acupuncture, and massage. The aim of Chinese medicine is to restore balance and allow the body to flourish.

What can Acupuncture treat?
For thousands of years Traditional Chinese medicine has treated a wide variety of disorders. Currently the World Heath Organization recognizes over forty conditions that are effectively treated with acupuncture. Some conditions include: asthma, allergies, addiction cessation, headaches, pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, TMJ syndrome, anxiety, depression, insomnia, digestive complaints and female reproductive health issues including infertility, endometriosis, fibroids, cysts, PMS and irregular menses.

Ms. Axen will be conducting a free workshop entitled “Eating for the Seasons: a traditional approach to weight loss and improved energy” on October 21st at 2pm at Midwood Martial Arts. Her office hours are Tuesdays 10am-7pm, Fridays 1pm-6pm and Sundays 9am-2pm. Please call 917-862-7589 or 718-434-0081 to make an appointment. You can also schedule a free half hour consultation if you would like to learn more about Chinese Medicine and how it can specifically help you.
Ancient Current
Midwood Wellness

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Forgotten NY Bedford Fellows - Part 1: Emmons to Beverly

Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY features Victorian Flatbush within his latest neighborhood tour Bedford Fellows - Part 1: Emmons to Beverly.

North and NW of Flatbush Brooklyn consists of myriads of what used to be separate developments, wrought from the minds of visionary developers such as Dean Alvord, who purchased a parcel of land in Flatbush from the estate of Luther Voorhies and the Dutch Reformed Church in 1898. Alvord, with the aid of architect John Petit, set about building sumptuously-appointed buildings for the well-to-do. By 1898 Flatbush had evolved into a well-established community that boasted good schools, decent local transit (trolleys) and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company offered easy transport to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge.
Alvord’s idea was to extend Prospect Park South and adapt it to residential use. He foresightedly buried utility lines underground and paved the streets in an age when many were still dirt roads or Belgian-bricked. Streets were given British-sounding names, and brick fence posts bearing the interlocking Prospect Park South monogram can still be seen on many intersections.
Different developments such as Caton Park, Beverly Squares East and West, Ditmas Park and Ditmas Park West, Midwood Park and South Midwood, and Fiske Terrace developed around the same format.
Bedford Avenue traverses South Midwood for one block, between Farragut Road and Flatbush Avenue, and for one block, it attains glory.

Bedford Fellows - Part 1: Emmons to Beverly [Forgotten NY]

Fresh Direct expands delivery into Victorian Flatbush

Fresh Direct has expanded it's service into Victorian Flatbush and other neighborhoods of Brooklyn by adding zip codes 11230, 11210*, 11229*, 11226, 11223, 11218* to the list of available home delivery zones. *(partial)

Now everyone living within the new delivery zones can add Fresh Direct along with Associated, The Flatbush Food Coop and other local shops to the options for your neighborhood food shopping.

Delivery should begin sometime next week check in the new delivery zones, check with Fresh Direct for exact dates for your area. New members receive a 25% discount on their first and second orders using the password THYME.


Delivery Info [Fresh Direct]
Map of Victorian Flatbush [MaryKayG]
Fresh Direct Brooklyn [Brooklynian]
Fresh Direct Expanding to the Other Side(s) of the Park? [Brooklyn Record]

Brooklynian.com: Flatbush/Midwood/Ditmas Park/Kensington

For those of you looking for more information about Victorian Flatbush and would like to get your answers from people who live in the area, we would like to direct you to a growing neighborhood forum covering Flatbush, Midwood, Ditmas Park, and Kensington from Brooklynian.com. As with all message boards the more readers the more informed and up to date the messages are.

House of the Day: 2787 Bedford Avenue - Brownstoner

From Brownstoner.com

Whatever your view on the desirability of the Brooklyn College area, the fact remains that there are some nice houses at decent prices to be found. This place on Bedford Avenue between Farragut and Glenwood doesn't have any eye-popping detail, but it's part of an attractive row of attached brick houses and looks to be in decent shape. We're not very familiar with this stretch of Bedford, however, so it's tough call for us. Has anyone been inside this place?

Brownstoner comments

Bedford Avenue Beauty - For Sale in Victorian Flatbush call for an appointment

ASKING PRICE: $649,000

Mary Kay Gallagher Real Estate
Property Shark
Brooklyn College Area
Google Map

BEDFORD AVENUE BEAUTY
Move-in Condition

Special Features include:

• Parquet Floors
• Stain Glass Windows
• Fire Place
• Large Closets

1st Floor: Spacious living room with bay windows, beautifully restored parquet floors and fire place. Formal dining room that leads to updated Kitchen and half bath. Private garden.

2nd Floor: 4 bedrooms and full bath room. Master bedroom has large walk in closet and a shaving sink.

Exterior: Attached brick home.

Basement: Semi finished.

For more information click here: marykayg.com

South Midwood Garden Tour - Highlights from The Flatbush Gardener

The Flatbush Gardener has posted the highlights of The South Midwood Garden Tour. The piece includes pictures of local gardens, the Brooklyn College Community Garden, and the Avenue H Subway station. The photo gallery also includes a satellite photo of the area, courtesy of Google.

Bill Cosby Coming to Brooklyn College

Bill Cosby will be performing at The Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts at Brooklyn College on 10/14/06.

"Bill Cosby is one of the best-known comedians performing today. Cosby’s unique style points out the humor in our lives while providing insight into our roles as parents, children, family members, men, and women."

You can check out all the details here.

Midwood South

South Midwood was built by Real Estate Developers at the turn of the century. The land was purchased as large tracts from Dutch Families who had owned the farms in Flatbush. In 1901, the South Midwood Resident Association was founded, an organization that remains a vital force in the community today. In honor of the neighborhood’s centennial in 2001, the City Council restored the original names of South Midwood’s tree-lined streets: Kenmore Place (East 21st Street), Elmore Place (East 22nd Street), Delamere Place (East 23rd Street) and Mansfield Place (East 24th Street). Names with "Sense and Sensibility."

South Midwood, like other Victorian Flatbush neighborhoods, offers urban convenience and suburban spaciousness. A vigorous Neighborhood Association meets regularly, offering residents the opportunity to share experiences and ideas. It sponsors a large community garden (located on the Brooklyn College grounds, adjacent to the Athletic field), organizes a tour of homeowners gardens in spring. The owners of the approximately 400 homes that make up South Midwood reflect the diversity of origin and lifestyle that make it a dynamic destination.

For information about the neighborhood today, please contact the South Midwood Association President: Warren Dingott, 718.859.2510.

Double Dragon

41 Newkirk Plaza

718.434.8211

Acme Video and More

41B Newkirk Plaza

718.421.0011

Spartan Gym

1166 Coney Island Ave.

718.434.2300

Open 24 hours from 7 am Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday closes at 10pm.

Special $200 1 year membership until 3/31/07 (please call to confirm).

The Prep Center for Music, Theater, and Dance

2900 Bedford Ave #234 Roosevelt Hall
Brooklyn, NY 11210

Website: http://www.bcprepcenter.org
E-mail: BCPC@brooklyn.cuny.edu

P.S. 315 School of Performing Arts

2310 Glenwood Road.

Principal: Beverly Ffolkes-Bryant P: 718.421.9560 F: 718.421.9561

P.S. 152, School of Science and Technology

725 East 23rd

Principal: Dr. Rhonda Dawn, P: 718.434.5222 F: 718.859.5965