Car-Free Montague a Bust?
Was the first “summer space” Sunday on Montague Street really as underwhelming as this photo from Brooklyn Heights Blog makes it out to be? Crowds Throng Montague On First Piazza Day [BHB] ‘Summer Space’ Coming to Brooklyn Heights? [Brownstoner]
Was the first “summer space” Sunday on Montague Street really as underwhelming as this photo from Brooklyn Heights Blog makes it out to be?
Crowds Throng Montague On First Piazza Day [BHB]
‘Summer Space’ Coming to Brooklyn Heights? [Brownstoner]
A bikini car wash? In Brooklyn Heights?
Clutch pearls!
Just be sure to import the bikini babes from a younger, sexier neighborhood.
No traffic clogging the street.
No exhaust spewing into kids’ faces.
No jerks honking their horns.
Sidewalks more crowded than I usually see them — especially on a dead holiday weekend in summer.
Looks like a big success to me.
Amen, but let’s at least bring back the Blimpies. I love Montague St.
@ guest at July 7, 2008 5:19 PM
“Let’s address the real problem here – Montague Street is not doing so well.”
During the weekends, no. During the weekdays when court and civil service workers are around, it’s doing fine.
There’s no way to “connect” Montague to anything but the immediate neighborhood. If you want boutiques, I say having them placed near the Saint George Hotel is the best way to go. Makes that area a destination, and the walk between than and Montague is short.
Really, who are these Montague Street bashers? The same people who would rather DIE than have granite counters in their kitchens?….. because it is sooo last year darling…
Montague Street is an old established commercial street. it was always a bank and realtor street. always. but it is also a place with grocery stores, and take out places and clothing shops and shoe shops and a book shop, a liquor store, a laundremat, i mean you name it, it’s there almost. As a prior poster noted it is not twee, it is real life.
having said this, I thought the closed off street thing was a dismal failure. It made the street look strange, kind of like an emergency of some kind was underway, Montague street is fine, leave it alone, all we do not need is brownstoner types telling us what type of weird nepalese/yemeni cuisine is a “must have”.
yeah, bring back the Burger King!
Let’s address the real problem here – Montague Street is not doing so well. Perhaps they need an improvement district. The street could really benefit from improved link to the commerical revitalization on Court and Atlantic. For being in the middle of wealthy Brooklyn Heights, the commercial quality is really low grade. The streets and sidewalks are often filthy too. Montague Street needs a major destination to draw more people.
I just want to say that staying in Brooklyn Heights over the long weekend was really great. It was so quiet, there were parking spots everywhere, the fireworks were terrific. People who go away on these long weekends are missing out.
I live on Pierrepont, about as adjacent as it gets and there was no traffic impact at all because there was no traffic. It was July 4th weekend, in Brooklyn Heights. There were about 20 residents in the entire area. There were parking spots galore too — and that NEVER happens.