Boerum Place Getting Spruced Up
Downtown Brooklyn’s gritty gateway doesn’t exactly scream million-dollar condos and boutique hotels…yet. While those things are being built, the city is busying itself with streetscape improvements like the one above, at right, a stretch of Boerum Place between Livingston and Joralemon Streets, which will also include new sidewalks and curb extensions. According to a Downtown…
Downtown Brooklyn’s gritty gateway doesn’t exactly scream million-dollar condos and boutique hotels…yet. While those things are being built, the city is busying itself with streetscape improvements like the one above, at right, a stretch of Boerum Place between Livingston and Joralemon Streets, which will also include new sidewalks and curb extensions. According to a Downtown Brooklyn Partnership spokesman, by the end of the summer it should look something like the existing Boerum Place streetscape, above left, creating a continuous planted median from the Brooklyn Bridge to Atlantic Avenue. Next, the city plans to begin its Fulton Street Mall, Flatbush and Myrtle Avenue streetscape improvements. “These projects are creating grand entrances, whether it be coming from the bridge down Flatbush or coming down Flatbush from the other direction,” said the spokesman, adding that the improvements includes traffic calming measures and safer pedestrian crossings.
Creating ‘grand entrances’ with the new plantings is a step in the right direction to improving an ugly streetscape.
How about pulling down the eyesore that is the HOD at the gateway to the new Brooklyn etc. Welcome to Brooklyn …turn left at the very tall building with barbed wire….
I live in a coop 2 blocks away and we just changed our windows. Didn’t even have to notify the board.
the 110 livingston blog had a thing on this too weeks ago i think.
Agreed 1:53… because there’s nothing as annoying as “noice”
hey–i read this story last week on mcbrooklyn- your story has better pix of flowers though.
if possible pls link better, so i don’t think there’s more than beauty projecton boerum place (not that there would be anyhting wrong with that)
We are all hoping that the hotel planned for the parking lot between Livingston and Schermerhorn (behind 110) is on hold until the next real estate cycle. That’s the only big construction project ion paper.
and when you live in a coop or condo you can’t just change your windows. All you can do is add interior window over them.
hey–i read this story last week on mcbrooklyn-although you have better flowers in your version.
pls. link better
Laminated glass windows, aka soundproof glass windows. Get it for your home and the construction noise is a non-issue.
BTW, why is the construction noise bothering you? Shouldn’t you be working, or are you one of those lazy stay at home moms bitching about everything that goes on in a city enviroment?
where 2:11?