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2006 = Change in Downtown Brooklyn

Happy new year to all our fellow 53BP residents. We hope you enjoyed the holiday season!

It looks like 2006 is finally going to bring those neighborhood changes that have been looming on the horizon. Gothamist has summarized the mayor’s budgetary plan, which includes $89 million earmarked for Downtown Brooklyn’s economic development. Suggested improvements on the table include widening and landscaping the median down Boerum Place to Atlantic Avenue as part of a traffic calming initiative and creation of more office space. This appears to be the third largest amount allotted to one area, behind the mammoth Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront project and the Brooklyn Navy Yard development.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 2nd, 2006 at 7:34 pm by lori and is filed under Neighborhood. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “2006 = Change in Downtown Brooklyn”


  1. chuck says:
    January 11th, 2006 at 9:17 pm

    Hey - the $90 million they’re spending on the Brooklyn Navy Yard isn’t bad for anybody in our hood either.

    Bad news is, however, that some of the BAM projects (the BPL Visual & Performing Arts library) are falling short of funds.

    happy new year, lori!

  2. 110 Livingston News & Blog » The Park Avenue of Brooklyn? Not quite yet. says:
    March 11th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

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