'Summer Space' Coming to Brooklyn Heights?
Brooklyn has an answer to the plan that’ll make a large stretch of Park Avenue car-free for a few Saturdays this summer. On Sundays in July, three blocks of Montague Street, between Clinton and the Promenade, are likely to be closed off, according to the Brooklyn Paper. The resulting “Summer Space,” as proposed by the…
Brooklyn has an answer to the plan that’ll make a large stretch of Park Avenue car-free for a few Saturdays this summer. On Sundays in July, three blocks of Montague Street, between Clinton and the Promenade, are likely to be closed off, according to the Brooklyn Paper. The resulting “Summer Space,” as proposed by the Montague Street BID, would include cafe tables and a lawn. It will…encourage Sunday sales for our merchants, said BID Executive Director Chelsea Mauldin. People can come out, pick up a coffee, read the paper, and enjoy the sunshine.
Montague on Grass! [Brooklyn Paper]
Rendering from the Montague Street BID via Brooklyn Paper .
As a Black man I’m glad that this will not affect me – at least according to the picture!
I love my 2 trucks!
If I were Mayor, I would prohibit all frivolous street closings. Streets are the arteries of a city and traffic is its lifeblood. If you hate traffic, you are not an urbanite, you belong in the country, on a secluded farm.
Montague street should be redesigned to favor pedestrians over cars. Other than deliveries, theres no reason to be driving on that street.
This is a photoshop image composed of a backgdrop of Montague Street with people strolling along Main Street, East Hampton, pasted in.
What would those rich-looking people be doing on Montague Street on a weekend in the summer?
The image would be pretty hillarious if it weren’t actually so sad.
Wow….guess minorities dont live in that area. Not one in the picture. Hmmm.Some things never change.
I think the foot traffic on Montague is a bit deceiving as it seems to be mostly be made up of people from the court houses and government workers out for a quick lunch or run an errand during lunch or right after work (eye glasses anyone?). So although it potential customers perhaps maybe among the wealthiest in NYC, very few of the stores seem to be catering to the local residents or tourists for that matter. …and that is why many of the residents of BH simply eat and shop in Manhattan, Dumbo, CH, etc.
This story is so June 9th:
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/2714
God forbid they try to make something attractive and pleasant for people.