We just got an email from a reader alerting us to the fact that Marty Markowitz has just come through for the residents of Victorian Flatbush. Susan Siegel of the Flatbush Development Corp. just announced that the big man on Brooklyn’s campus secured $83,000 for the facelift of Cortelyou Road. In addition to replacing the “Cobra head” streetlights with the “Flatbush pole”, the so-called streetscape project aims to install cobblestone sidewalk borders, planters, banners, bike ranks and granite benches up and down the thoroughfare. One resident summed it up: “I’ve seen the plans and it looks like the bloody Champs Elysees.” We’re all for investing in public spaces but we just hope this doesn’t end up looking like the Disney version of historic Brooklyn.