Flatbush Ave to Become 'Grand Gateway'

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Flatbush Avenue between Tillary and Hanson Place is going to get a spruce up to the tune of $15 million courtesy of the city. The idea is to create a "grand gateway" to downtown Brooklyn. The centerpiece of the project will be a "tall and very imposing" sculpture; in addition, there will be lots of new lights and plants. Construction should start in 2007 and last about two years.
The Manhattan Project [NY Post]

Comments

more construction on Flatbush - just what we need

Posted by: Anonymous at October 16, 2006 9:40 AM

yeah right...Le Grand Boulevard de Flatbush...

Hopefully it will be as beautiful as Le Grand Palais de Target...

Posted by: Anonymous at October 16, 2006 9:54 AM

so much construction....so little taste...bad combo.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 16, 2006 10:17 AM

Maybe it will be another Holocaust memorial, God knows we don\'t have enough of those.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 16, 2006 10:27 AM

Based on the amount of information available (one small rendering and a handful of phrases; "grand gateway," "sidewalks filled with large trees and better lighting," and "the sculpture 'should be tall and very imposing to fit the area, make a statement, and serve as a signature',"), I find the preceding comments about as knee-jerk as possible.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 16, 2006 10:38 AM

Anon 10:38 - Did you not also read "Construction should start in 2007 and last about two years"?

Work has been almost continuous on Flatbush between the bridge and 4th Avenue for the last eleven or twelve years. Only recently has it become bearable again. The thought of another major constuction initiative is hardly a "knee-jerk" reaction.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 16, 2006 10:49 AM

Seems like the Boerum/Adams corridor is a better candidate for grand entryway to Brooklyn.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 16, 2006 12:05 PM

As a truck driver who delivers all that ship ypu Brooklynites require I can testify to the uncoming disaster. They just redid this a few years ago. Oh I remember the last time they redid the flatbush ext. What only 4 blocks long and it took years to plant some trees (now dead) and put in some cobble stones in the median strip. This with the closing of the lower roadway of the Manhattan Bridge should make for a pleasant ride.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 16, 2006 12:09 PM

Learn more about the Flatbush re-design at the November 20, 2006 Fort Greene Association Meeting, 7:30pm at 85 S.Oxford Street (between Lafayette and Fulton). JOE CHAN, President of the new city agency called the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, will make a presentation and take questions. The Partnership oversees development within the “Downtown Brooklyn Plan” – including Flatbush Avenue and into Fort Greene along Fulton Street and Myrtle Avenue, plus the BAM Cultural District and more. Also appearing that same evening, Special Guest Speaker HAKEEM JEFFRIES, candidate for the NY State Assembly, 57th District.

Monday, November 20th, 7:30pm
85 South Oxford Street
(between Lafayette and Fulton)
(light refreshments served beginning at 7:00pm)

Everyone is welcome at Fort Greene Association meetings - renters and homeowners alike. Please spread the word about this meeting. Thank you. Phillip Kellogg, FGA Chair
www.HistoricFortGreene.org

Posted by: Fort Greene Association at October 16, 2006 12:47 PM

great -- after they build some monuments and plant some trees on flatbush, could they maybe do something to stop people on bikes from getting murdered by other traffic?

Posted by: lexi at October 16, 2006 12:57 PM

On another flameworthy subject, when is City Hall going to grow a pair and start charging East River tolls? Let the people who use the bridges pay for them, as I gladly do whenever I use the Battery Tunnel. I vote for congestion pricing too.

Posted by: linusvanpelt at October 16, 2006 1:40 PM

hmmm. gateway to the arena??

Posted by: Lisa at October 16, 2006 3:27 PM

lol @ Lisa..nice one :)

Posted by: Anonymous at October 16, 2006 6:05 PM

AWWWWWWWWW, Linusvanpelt is whining! IT'S SO CUTE!!!!!

Posted by: Anonymous at October 16, 2006 9:02 PM

Oy gevalt! Scores of planning issues blown aside to argue about a totally conjetural "welcome statue"?

I suggest that this issue can best be resolved once the Second Avenune subway is opened.

Meanwhile, the more Lower East Side yuppies who stay om their side of the river the better! The trains are running quite eficiently.

Posted by: BklynBookWorm at October 17, 2006 1:25 AM

Hmm. Between not being able to make a left from the Manhattan bridge til you hit Myrtle and new construction, suspending two way traffic north of Flatbush on 6h Ave/Carlton (yes, that was two way before the infill rowhouses were built on Atlantic) , the cops parking all over any street coming FROM Park Slope, thus KEEPING it one way the wrong way and the upcoming Atlantic Yards construction, I think everyone in Ft. Greene is going to have to do all their shopping in Queens or Long Island because that's about the only place we'll be able to get to. The oxymoronic city "Traffic Engineers" have boxed us into a freaking island.

Just what IS the best way to get on the Queensboro bridge?

Posted by: Anonymous at October 17, 2006 8:23 AM

Take the subway. Or the waaahmbulance. It's on the way.

Posted by: here's an idea at October 17, 2006 11:00 AM

why waste $$$$ on brooklyn ?

Posted by: jj at October 17, 2006 1:29 PM

Sounds like the press release to the Fulton Mall project way back when...

Posted by: Ron at October 17, 2006 7:18 PM

isnt this wonderful;
went to the first 'campus' of nyc comm. college [nytech,now] between
tillary and pearl..........

anyone go there then.......

Posted by: flatbushAmigo at January 3, 2007 3:42 PM