Will Court Street Be the Next Smith Street?
Last week, CB6 voted to make the reconstruction of Court Street the board’s number one priority in their fiscal year ’09 capital budget requests for the second year in a row. But why’s it so important, and what’s it going to involve? The project covers things like repairing the sidewalks and curbs from Atlantic to…
Last week, CB6 voted to make the reconstruction of Court Street the board’s number one priority in their fiscal year ’09 capital budget requests for the second year in a row. But why’s it so important, and what’s it going to involve? The project covers things like repairing the sidewalks and curbs from Atlantic to Hamilton avenues, and it’s supposed to mirror the recent reconstruction of Smith Street, which is partially credited with turning Smith into the retail powerhouse it is today. The city’s earmarked $11 million for the revamp and said it’ll begin work in 2011. (And it’s almost certainly not going to happen any quicker: Councilman David Yassky said last week that the DOT doesn’t expect to have initial designs for the project for another three years.) Given that these plans are going to be cooking for so long, what do you think the DOT should focus on with the reconstruction? Think it makes sense to expect a Smith Street-like renaissance?
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Plenty of businesses do well on Smith and have been there for years: Patois, Tabac, Smith and Vine, Saul, Grocery, Area, Red Rose, Vinny’s, Zaytoons, etc. I do wonder, however, about the many new pricey clothing boutiques on both Smith and Court.
Love the idea of putting more trees and fixing the overall apperance of court st.
smith street a retail powerhouse?? how many restaurants and stores last longer then 6 months?? does anybody buy the overpriced stuff there?? there is a total disconnect between rents to the reality that stores do not really do well there. i for one if opening a business would probably choose court over smith.
The one thing they should do is to make them both 2-way. As the flap on DOT’s stupid idea on trying to make 6th-7th Ave one way proved, no one likes one way streets. They promote faster traffic and make for a bad street experience (unless you want fast throughput.)
The first thing CB6 should do is to petition for this. But with that backward-looking Traffic Commissioner in charge (who actually lives in CH, I think) and whose idea it was to make 6- one way and actually thinks one way streets are “safer,” it’s a hard slog.
1.33, so the answer would be to have the cars race from red light to red light? No one is going to drive 15 mph on Hicks.
Court street is cool. Having it like smith street would be a disaster. What are they smoking?
If this is just a fancy name for improving the state of the pavement and curb, then, whatever, get on with it. But if you want smith street on court street, get lost! what a nightmare! are the restaurants on smith street full? most, no. So keep them there, and keep court street for the people who live in the area.
why does it take THREE YEARS to come up with the plans? surely you can go to school and graduate from a town planning degree in that amount of time?
How about people who race down Hicks street north bound trying to bypass the BQE traffic. That is without question an accident waiting to happen. All it would take would be to change the timing on traffic lights so cars could not go over 15-20 mph without hitting another traffic light. Such a simple thing to fix and certainly safety is a higher priority than the reconstruction of court street.
12:36, Keep dreaming. It is a public street that my tax dollars help to maintain. I have the right to go through Court street from Hamilton avenue without stopping anytime I choose.