A stroll down Fleet Ave in Slavic Village will greet you with two dozen or so businesses and storefronts. There's the Lincoln Post—a bar home of the Polish Legion of American Veterans—off East 61st.
Owners sitting on unused property, which accounts for half of Fleet Ave.,"are dragging down the city and the neighborhood along with them" said Councilwoman Rebecca MauerA stroll down Fleet Ave in Slavic Village will greet you with two dozen or so businesses and storefronts.
"It's not just about saying, 'Oh, let's incentivize and get people to do these things,' because a lot of folks really don't want to do that work," Shneur Kushner, Slavic Village's director of development, told Scene on a recent walk down Fleet. The idea to use it to breathe new life into a desolate Fleet Avenue, along with streets in Old Brooklyn and Brooklyn Center, belongs in part to Ward 12 Councilwoman Rebecca Maurer, who opted to dedicate an entire week, starting Monday, to shedding light on both the strategy and implications of those federal dollars being spent on bringing back Main Street quality to a corridor that has anything but.
Trash and carelessness from"land speculators" are top complaints. Supermarket manager Matthew Patel said he laments those who litter."I have eighty percent good neighbors around me," Patel said."Twenty percent are bad." And it almost happened to Fleet back in 2017, when the street itself was repaved, bike lanes were painted, and filtration water basins were installed along the street to catch all of the road's water runoff.
For businesses actually working and operating on Fleet, any confidence in Maurer's plan rested, Scene found, in simple crime watch or ongoing cleanup.! I can't understand their nonsense," Matthew Patel, the manager of the Slavic Village Market off East 64th, told Scene as he operated his cash register."But I would say I have 80% good neighbors around me; 20% are bad."
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