Money Starting to Flow to Fulton Street
A double-shot of cash injections announced this week means that things may be looking up for Fulton Street. Next month, the City Council will provide more than a million dollars in funding to two recently-created Business Improvement Districts on Fulton Street stretching from Flatbush to Nostrand Avenue. The Central Fulton Street BID (which will also…
A double-shot of cash injections announced this week means that things may be looking up for Fulton Street. Next month, the City Council will provide more than a million dollars in funding to two recently-created Business Improvement Districts on Fulton Street stretching from Flatbush to Nostrand Avenue. The Central Fulton Street BID (which will also be known as the FAB Alliance) is getting $400,000 in funding via Council Member Letitia James while the Bed-Stuy Gateway is receiving $675,000 for its first year in operations. Both BIDs are expected to focus on design and other quality-of-life issues like safety, lighting, trees and street furniture. We want to create an aesthetically sound district, Bed-Stuy Gateway’s chairman, Edmon Braithwaite told Crain’s. With a cleaner shopping district, we will be able to attract merchants and increase business. The Crain’s article also mentions two affordable housing projects being done in partnership between BRP and Goldman Sachs that together should bring 183 units of housing as well as additional retail space to Fulton Street. All good!
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i hear you and I love those places mentioned above, but the drug trade, methadone addicts and what that brings with it inhibit retail growth. Despite a big police presence in 06 (i believe) all the dealers just came back. the biggest problems are the buyers of the drugs, who then roam up and down the streets around grand and putnam and do their business on stoops or harrass people living there. my neigbor’s sitter and 4 year old son were followed by one guy who had just scored and he kept yelling at the little boy, “Am I your first nigger? ever seen a nigger?” run with that…
Miss Priss:
It took Fifth Avenue 50 years to improve. No kidding. For decades it was a danger zone where Park Slope members of my family never ventured.
In the cycle of residential neighborhoods, retail streets are always the first to go and the last to come back. If the blocks around Fulton are improving markedly — and they appear to be — the street may finally have its “moment.”
But beware! As Oscar Wilde said: The only thing worse than not getting what you want can be getting what you want. If this stretch of Fulton becomes Fifth Avenue, you and your neighbors may be priced out of the neighborhood.
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1842 – we ignore Rob – by evidence is that he is mentally ill.
Rob, sometimes the things you come out with are just ridiculous. A lot of people who live in the area want somewhere to shop and eat on Fulton Street. I’m glad that those four places have done well in the past several years. They are each owned by (respectively) gay men, African immigrants, a bi-racial couple and an African American family. All hard working and doing their best to improve the community, their families and the achieve the “American Dream”. So take it easy on maligning them and the hard work they put in every day to provide somewhere nice for the community to eat and shop.
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Places like Outpost, Kush, Olivino, Michael Allen’s
is it SO hard to fathom, please try now, that some people DON’T want that crap? ugh.
*rob*
Miss Priss – five years is actually not all that long; I say that not to diss you but rather for you to take heart. When I moved to the area in 98 Fort Greene’s Fulton was just as boring (if somewhat prettier) than Clinton Hill. Places like Outpost, Kush, Olivino, Michael Allen’s have all appeared in the last few years. The drug transactions tolerated inside and around many of the bodegas are a drag, but this too shall pass.
That’s my stretch too basically. I have more confidence than you that it will develop commercially but it definitely has a way to go.
the stretch from washington to downing – it’s pretty dismal…
miss priss–what stretch of Fulton do you live near?