Putnam Triangle May Get a Pedestrian Plaza
The Fulton Area Business Alliance has announced that a long down-on-its-luck space in Clinton Hill might be turned into a pedestrian plaza this summer. A press release from the BID says it’s working with the DOT to “explore the creation of a temporary pedestrian plaza on Putnam Avenue, between Grand and Fulton.” This is, of…
The Fulton Area Business Alliance has announced that a long down-on-its-luck space in Clinton Hill might be turned into a pedestrian plaza this summer. A press release from the BID says it’s working with the DOT to “explore the creation of a temporary pedestrian plaza on Putnam Avenue, between Grand and Fulton.” This is, of course, the corner that’s already seen quite a bit of transformation of late. Alas, no renderings are available. Putnam Triangle aside, the BID brings word of other projects in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene: “Two capital projects funded by a $400,000 allocation by Council Member Letitia James are the Gates Triangle Park in Clinton Hill (bounded by Fulton, Gates and Vanderbilt), which will get improvements to its physical space including additional green space and enhanced pedestrian safety, and the area known as ‘7-Corners’ (Fulton, S. Oxford and Greene), at the tip of Cuyler-Gore Park), which will complete work started on the other six corners and traffic islands, resulting in improved sidewalks and pedestrian crossings plus additional green space. Also, the FAB Alliance proposal for creating a plaza at Fowler Square (Fulton and Lafayette) has just been selected for funding – in round three of the NYC Plaza Program.” GMAP
huh, pretzel wagon. Not sure what space you are talking about. Of course there is drug dealing go around between Washington and Grand on Fulton, but not sure that two young men in puffy coats is proof positive of anything (except young men who have listened to their mothers in dressing weather appropriate). Any hoo, glad to hear about the street improvements…
Will Marty Markowitz be allowed to park there?
More and more good developments on this stretch of Fulton. Pretty impressive to see all the changes in the past few years, which have really picked up in the past 12 months.
The place that I’m talking about is definitely not a deli, it does not want you inside shopping– they have boxes and boxes lined up to block the view of the windows. Maybe we’re talking about about two different storefronts. But this one, I passed by this weekend, was most certainly NOT a deli. Not welcoming at all, but at the same time I walked by two young men in puffy coats strolled on in. It was only after I passed that I realized that I was near the Clinton/Washington C station where people have been complaining of drug dealing nearby. You do the math.
Bermuda Triangle for the next dip. Few see it coming.
***Bid half off peak comps***
Yes, I remember that building, MM. I am pretty sure it was demolished in the early 90s. There have been various gardening schemes (the first done by the daycare at the senior citizen’s center next to the post office) but no one who really knew how to plant stuff that would work year round and had the wherewithal to maintain it.
The deli at the northwest corner of Fulton and Cambridge is actually a new building which replaced a truly decrepit dangerous building that was torn down around 1995. For sure things are different than they were in the late 80s and early 90s.
They just renovated that deli (nw corner Cambridge and Fulton) – it still isn’t very salubrious, but I (who live nearby) have never thought that was a transaction center. Reality is such activities will continue always (which is why I am for decriminalization of the drug trade) and will always happen on the street in the absence of other public and commercial activities. Proposals such as this one to create a more welcoming public space are particularly well-timed with the new and revamped restaurants and bars at this intersection. If there were no such legal commerce upswing, it would just be a waste of money.
This is good, maybe. What they really need to do is something about the faux-deli drug front that’s on the corner of either St. James or Cambridge. The one with the boxes piled high in the front windows so you can’t see inside. I don’t live near there, but that place is scary and it’s obviously got some illegal activity going on.
I’ve been around long enough to remember the cute little 4 story triangular building that used to be in the grassy footprint. It was torn down in the late ’80’s or so. If I remember correctly, it’s in the background of one of Spike Lee’s student films.