A band plays live music in front of Greenhouse Cafe at a past Third Avenue
Summer Stroll. File photo by Trey Pentecost
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Let the good times stroll!
Bay Ridge’s beloved “Summer
Strolls” are returning for
their ninth hurrah this summer
after taking a one-year
hiatus due to the coronavirus
pandemic in 2020, offi cials announced
on May 17.
“What is going to make
our neighborhoods feel like
they’re back is bringing back
our traditions,” said state Sen.
Andrew Gounardes, who represents
a swath of southern
Brooklyn which includes Bay
Ridge. “Summer streets is one
of those traditions.”
Neighborhood merchants,
business advocates and politicians
met Monday to announce
the relaunch of the
summer program, during
which streets are closed to vehicles
and storefronts set up
shop on the sidewalk.
“We are very, very excited
to announce the return of our
Summer Strolls,” said Louis
Coluccio, Jr. of ALC Italian
Grocery on Third Avenue.
“We are looking forward for
all the businesses to come out,
for the community to come out
and support it.”
The 2021 Summer Strolls
will be held on Third Avenue’s
southern end on July 9 and
Aug. 6, and its northern end
on July 16 and Aug. 13, as well
as Fifth Avenue on the last
Friday of each month from
July to October.
Business owners are still
working with the city’s Department
of Transportation to
fi nalize which streets will be
blocked off on Third Avenue,
but the executive director of
Fifth Avenue’s business boosting
group told Brooklyn Paper
they plan to close nine blocks
between 72nd and 85th streets.
“The city wants there
to be more space, as opposed
to lots of things like a festival,
where you think of a very
crowded event,” said Amanda
Zenteno, who heads the Bay
Ridge Fifth Avenue Business
Improvement District. “This is
so people can come out and enjoy
that space, like bike riding
or if they wanted to picnic.”
The reinvented, sociallydistant
summer strolls will
utilize the city’s Open Streets
program introduced during
the pandemic, which varies
from her thoroughfare’s previous
“weekend walks” program,
Zenteno said, as it requires
social distancing and
discourages crowds.
The Bay Ridge Fifth Avenue
BID will use space on
their extended open street to
host programming crowdsourced
by the community,
and Zenteno hopes neighbors
will reach out to their offi ce
with ideas. Those proposals
can run the gamut, she said,
adding that suggestions so far
have included a knitting class
and a slam poetry event.
The Summer Strolls benefi
t both guests and businessowners
alike.
While locals are offered an
array of activities to choose
from, storefronts along each
strip are invited to sell outside
— and, after a diffi cult year for
many mom-and-pop shops, local
merchants say they’re looking
forward to getting back to business,
and having a good time.
“I think it’s great for the
community to just get out
there and work together and
have some fun,” said Jeanine
Condon of Charmed by JLM
on Third Avenue. “It’s fun to
see regulars who come just for
the strolls.”
The event is highly anticipated
by the neighborhood’s
inhabitants and beyond, and
the area’s councilmember
said it’s just what the community
needs after the past year
wading through the coronavirus
pandemic.
“After an impossibly tough
and terribly painful year, the
summer is here and Bay Ridge
is back! Everyone sacrifi ced
so much, and now it’s time to
come together again,” said
Councilmember Justin Brannan.
“Bay Ridge has always
been a small town in a big
city and now we can fi nally
get back into the streets with
friends and neighbors to have
some fun and support our local
small businesses!”
‘Summer Strolls’ to return
to Bay Ridge this summer
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