City OKs $3 Million Plan to Decorate Sidewalks in Fort Greene Theater District
The city and a group of developers are planning to spend $3,000,000 on fancy sidewalks to demarcate the newly renamed Brooklyn Cultural District, aka the area around Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene. The new sidewalks will have moody footlights embedded in them and, in some areas, a design scored into the tinted…
The city and a group of developers are planning to spend $3,000,000 on fancy sidewalks to demarcate the newly renamed Brooklyn Cultural District, aka the area around Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene. The new sidewalks will have moody footlights embedded in them and, in some areas, a design scored into the tinted cement. Above, before-and-after images showing the new sidewalks. There will also be new tree pits, trees and benches.
The idea is to let people know they’re in the Brooklyn Cultural District, both The Brooklyn Paper and Crain’s reported. The sidewalk revamp will take several years.
The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership helped push the proposal through the review process, said Brooklyn Paper. Half the cost will be fronted by developers who are putting up new buildings in the area. The other half will come from the city.
Do you think this will enhance the area?
Fort Greene Gets Fancy-Schmancy Sidewalks [Brooklyn Paper]
Brooklyn Cultural District Will Get a Makeover [Crain’s]
Image by WXY Architecture and Urban Design via Brooklyn Paper
I think this is a good idea, will look good, those sidewalks should be improved anyway, and I think $3M is actually surprisingly reasonable.
Sweet. Lights in sidewalks is cool!
It would be nice if some of this money or someone in the BAM cultural district organizations could clean up their triangle park, (Lafayette, Fulton St, St Felix ) that only they have the key too, but is an overgrown garbage tip!
The City likes to make Parks, but what about maintaining them? In fact maintain what is already here. Cleaning the sidewalks that are already here would be a great improvement.
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The biggest difference I have noticed is there are fewer our of “sisters” summering here in comparison to P-town.
Love P-town. Used to have a condo on Commercial St. but you get more real estate for your buck up here. Just as crowded, but fewer New Yorkers.
Come on up. Ogunquit beach. I will be five speedos down from the volley ball nets. You will probably hear the cocktail shaker from the parking lot.
Crab cakes. Pimm’s cups. French macarons for dessert, followed by boy watching on the beach. I’m on vacation.
I’m going to make a pitcher of Pimm’s cups.