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On Friday, May 14, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz released “Vision for the Fourth Avenue Corridor,” a collaborative effort with urban planning students from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (NYU Wagner) to begin the process of initiating a community-driven transformation of Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue into “Brooklyn Boulevard,” a signature street worthy of the great communities that surround it. The vision plan proposes an active street for residents, economic opportunities for local businesses and exhibit spaces for the artist community. These goals will be achieved through traffic-calming measures, streetscaping, placemaking and wayfinding improvements, and community partnerships.
“This report introduces some of the possibilities for making Fourth Avenue a great boulevard,” said Brooklyn Borough President's Office. “It includes illustrations and recommendations for potential treatments but is by no means a finalized streetscape plan. My intention for this report, as with all the work conducted on my behalf by the NYU Wagner students this past year, is to use it to contribute fresh ideas to the conversation on what to do, if anything, about Fourth Avenue’s future. The completion of these students’ work constitutes only one small initial step in what will prove to be a much larger process. It remains my goal to see that all efforts to transform Fourth Avenue reflect and receive guidance from the vision of all members of the local community.” |
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