Moore St Market to Expand to Pedestrian Plaza

At last night’s CB1 general meeting the NYC Department of Design and Construction presented plans for the Humboldt Street Plaza, a new 7,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza to be built in front of the Moore Street Retail Market in Bushwick. This is one of nine plazas in a recent DOT pedestrian program (including the Myrtle Plaza), and the plans laid out were described as typical to a DOT plaza. There will be art, seating, planters, and extra market stalls expanded from the Moore Street Market. These will surround a central raised area which will serve as performance space. The $1.2 million renovation also covers facade repair of the Moore Street market building and better lighting throughout the area. And although the plaza will cut the amount of parking in the area, DOT plans to make up the lost spots nearby. Board members’ reactions to the plans were mostly positive, as the plaza has been in the works since 2008, when the city threatened to shut down the market. If all goes according to plan, it will be constructed by the end of 2012. GMAP