Facelift for Flatbush?
It’s been more than three decades since the stretch of Flatbush Avenue that divides Prospect Heights and Park Slope had anything resembling a makeover. That’s all about to change, as the North Flatbush BID begins to solicit bids from contractors for implementing a planting-and-bikerack-heavy redesign from W Architecture and Landscape Architecture. (Nevermind that the rendering…
It’s been more than three decades since the stretch of Flatbush Avenue that divides Prospect Heights and Park Slope had anything resembling a makeover. That’s all about to change, as the North Flatbush BID begins to solicit bids from contractors for implementing a planting-and-bikerack-heavy redesign from W Architecture and Landscape Architecture. (Nevermind that the rendering above appears to actually be Park Place and not Flatbush.) “We haven’t had a facelift since the 1970s,” the BID’s Executive Director Sharon Davidson told The Brooklyn Paper. We should be more of a destination than a conduit to Downtown Brooklyn. With a recent kick-in from the Borough President, the project currently has $600,000 pledged toward it.
Could This Be the New Face of Flatbush Avenue? [Brooklyn Paper]
If they’re planting trees, they can take as many lanes as they like.
Oh, and trees are always nice.
Rob… I live in Flatbush now. And yes, it makes me giggle every time.
The most northernly stretch by the Manhattan Bridge has permanant “tracks” embedded in the road by heavy trucks, making driving on it similar to going off the road and into a ditch. I do not understand how the city can keep a major thorofare in that condition. I’m noticing this even on residential “avenues” (2 way streets) in BK. It’s like some covered wagon being pulled by the Budweiser Cleidsdales on massive growth hormone is canvassing the borough.
What ever happened to the improvements they were supposed to make on Flatbush right as you come over the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn…?
I thought I heard that that strip was also supposed to be getting a major face lift also, no?
I wonder if this project will be in coordination with the renovation of Grand Army Plaza. My building (on Plaza St.) just donated $$ to that effort.
cool! i’ve been waiting see some of these renderings. i wonder if they’ll show more at the BID annual meeting tonight??
This is great news. The BID had a community meeting about this last summer and solicited input from neighbors and business owners. They took a lot of notes, and I’m pretty sure they handed it all over to the landscape designers.
An example of good community planning, as opposed to what’s happening down at the Atlantic end of Flatbush.
does anyone else giggle when they say the word flatbush aloud?
*rob*