Fulton BID Gaining Momentum
With an end finally in sight for the infrastructure and repaving work that has plagued the already-down-on-its-luck stretch of Fulton Street in Clinton Hill, momentum is building for a new Business Improvement District to help improve the quality of life and retailing environment. There’s a meeting tonight at the Fort Greene Senior Citizens Council, 966…
With an end finally in sight for the infrastructure and repaving work that has plagued the already-down-on-its-luck stretch of Fulton Street in Clinton Hill, momentum is building for a new Business Improvement District to help improve the quality of life and retailing environment. There’s a meeting tonight at the Fort Greene Senior Citizens Council, 966 Fulton Street (between St. James Place and Grand Avenue) at 6:30 p.m. tonight hosted by Council Member Letitia James. Update: Thanks to cobblehller for providing this link to information on the proposed BID. Importantly, the site states that the BID is to cover the entire stretch of Fulton from Flatbush to Classon as well as some side streets.
Really! I keep telling my wife there is nothing better than being married to an Aussie(-: E-mail me on roaming-matt@hotmail.com. We have to have a beer, will pick them up at the bodega. Putnam your close too right?
putnam–i am sure if i had been here that whole time my perspective would be different. Lets hope that the BID, or whatever else, helps Fulton Street improve.
aussie–i have lived in clinton hill since 02 but I was up at Clinton and Lafayette until a few months ago. Just learning the ropes of my new hood. Would love to take you up on a beer sometime. Sorry to hear you are leaving. I am married to an Aussie by the way and spend a good deal of time each year in Bondi.
bedstuy11216 just had what should be comment of the month, in my opinion.
Thanks for bringing some truth and reality to what sometimes gets lost among rants from people on both sides of what seems like an endless argument on this blog (I know I’ve been part of this).
You just said something real though…something true and something helpful to hear…and I hope some people listen. I did for sure.
Hey Wasder we must live within a couple of blocks of each other. Unfortunately I’m heading away for a couple of years in a few weeks. But your welcome to a beer on my stoop one evening. I thought you had lived in the area for ages, but just bought.
And the efforts they have made to make their bodega less conducive to the drug trade are welcome. It was really a scary, unfriendly place when I moved in seven years ago. I still, I must admit it, avoid that bodega – but since there are four others within 200 feet it isn’t a big deal.
The look and feel of this area will change now. There are plenty of vacant shopfronts and empty buildings that are now viable with the improved look of the road and the BID.
Clinton Hill got some real improvements during the upturn and I think that a little commercial boom could occur on Fulton. Its not hard to imagine the right businesses doing well there, catering to the new customer base.
The same people that own the met own much of the street. They are worried about change and as landlord they pay most of the cost which they may not be able to pass onto leasees.
At least one of the stores sells the wacky baccy but I don’t think its all of the bodegas. Its permitted where I come from so I don’t see the big deal. It is the combination of poverty/unemployment/unhappiness + drugs that is the problem. You can’t remove the drugs but you should try to remove the other stuff.
Wasder I like the guys in your bodega too. That corner still has some problems though, although I don’t think those guys are any part of the issue.
I also would welcome decorations, security, lighting and trees!
putnamdenien–I just haven’t seen that side of that deli. not saying its not possible but I have seen the same people in there most mornings chatting and hanging out and I do not feel threatened or unwelcome and I buy beer there. That is all I am saying. If you have specific info about this place then you know more than me but in my experience I have not gotten the “drug trade” vibe off that bodega. Anyway, I try not to make snap judgments about people or things when I am new to an area. But I am not an idiot or overly naive (not saying you think I am either btw). I am sure my residence in the neighborhood will eventually erode any unnecessary naivete!
Please do stop by sometime. I am working out of my home so I am around all the time.