Grand Avenue News: Less Garbage, More Zig-Zags
We were pleased to see a major clean up underway at the small triangular green space at the intersection of Grand, Putnam and Fulton on Sunday afternoon. Maybe it will inspire the drug dealers to throw out their dime bags in the proper receptacles! Speaking of drug dealers, we have to eat our own words…
We were pleased to see a major clean up underway at the small triangular green space at the intersection of Grand, Putnam and Fulton on Sunday afternoon. Maybe it will inspire the drug dealers to throw out their dime bags in the proper receptacles! Speaking of drug dealers, we have to eat our own words and give some big props to the 88th who, we hear, pulled off a big bust at the building on the corner of Grand and Putnam a couple of weeks back. In other news, as noted in a comment on Wednesday, the plywood has been the removed from the front of the new building on Grand between Lexington and Greene. The commenter was digging the door design. We’re not so sure we share her enthusiasm, but then again, we’ve seen worse.
Check this out! maybe this will change a bit the face of fulton….
http://www.masseyknakal.com/search/search_frame_top.cfm
And now, of course, it is a park. When I (5:20) suggested cafe tables, I meant at establishments on Fulton, Grand and Putnam. The mimes need not appear.
Look at the size of that triangle! It’s barely big enough for a newsstand much less a food court! The building that was there years ago and torn down was a curiosity because of its size and shape, but there really isn’t room for any construction there.
I do think that could be a great commercial spot, with more cafes and stores, a good gourmet shop or two. It would be great. Transport’s close and it is close to C Hill, FG, the border of BS and also Prospect Heights.
The owner of “Outpost” (who I may forgive for naming his Seattle-esqe bar that) told me a while ago he had gotten a grant to beautify the Putnam/Fulton corner. It could be quite lovely. Funny how the triangles on Fulton don’t really seem to live up their potential as public spaces. I see cafe tables and mimes – okay, now I’m on crack…
I think b'”stoner” meant the EMPTY dimebag bags that litter the corner. I live on the block of Grand between gates and putnam and it is ridiculous how open the dealing is on that corner – it moved up the block a bit this week because of coned work right now…
That’s really too bad about tearing down the building at that intersection years ago. I think that intersection could be a really good commercial spot for the neighborhood. Maybe they could build something on that triangle again? It would be great if they renovated the building(s) between Putnam and Fulton, east of Grand. They could look really nice and the ground floor could be the much desired gourmet grocery everyone clamors for on this site.
There were many vacant buildings on the stretch of Fulton St. between Cambridge and Classon (probably many more beyond there, but outside my daily path), and they were all very, very bad for the neighborhood and its residents.
The big buildings on the block of Putnam between Downing and Grand are actually considerably better than they were 10 years ago. The residents of those buildings had a designated time to go to the post office every week on Saturday to get their mail–the letter carrier wouldn’t go inside. I don’t know if that’s still the case.
The garden at the triangle was first a project of the daycare center in the senior citizen’s center next to the post office. I don’t know who forked up the money and labor to plant the perennials a year or two later, but this is the time to renew a garden, no?
I often wonder about the guy who owned the pet shop on Putnam. The gate over the store is still there in all its tropical glory, but the store is gone for at least a couple of years. He was Australian or South African, and he seemed to enjoy what the guys were selling on the corner a lot too much. At our last visit there, they seemed to have taken over ownership of the store. But my daughter (4 at the time) and I bought a pair of goldfish from him that lasted over 3 years!
I think we know what street corner Whitbo has been hanging out at and what he’s been doin’ there.