The Future of Downtown Brooklyn's Fox Square
Here’s an idea of what the 6,000-square-foot public plaza will look like at Fox Square, the public plaza at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street. CB2’s Transportation Committee approved the above design and the full board is scheduled to vote on it tomorrow. The design includes three trees near the center of the…
Here’s an idea of what the 6,000-square-foot public plaza will look like at Fox Square, the public plaza at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street. CB2’s Transportation Committee approved the above design and the full board is scheduled to vote on it tomorrow. The design includes three trees near the center of the square, plantings along Flatbush Avenue, moveable tables and chairs, paving, lighting and one drinking fountain. Despite these changes, there are no plans to change the grade of the street. The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership will maintain the space. DOT should be installing tables and chairs on an interim basis any day now, the permanent plaza will come after all the design elements are finalized. Community Board 2 already approved the installation of the plaza itself, proposed first in January.
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Public Plaza Coming to Flatbush and Fulton [Brownstoner]
The city barely cares about this stretch at all. Currently the square is a big pit filled with snow and ice surrounded by trash because apparently it takes 6 months to repave a small square with concrete. If the PE firm Carlyle, new owner of 1 Flatbush, was in charge of this project, it would have taken three weeks to complete. There’s no accountability when it comes to projects initiated by local government. Why you would allow this to run into winter, endangering pedestrians in the process, I have no idea.