Apr. 27, 2024 By Adam Daly
Park Slope’s popular “Open Street” will go ahead this summer thanks to a group of Fifth Avenue merchants who banded together to secure funding for the car-free program along the bustling shopping and dining district.
Local business owners formed the Fifth Avenue Open Streets Merchant Association last month after the neighborhood’s Business Improvement District pulled out of the program due to a lack of funding from the city to shoulder the costs of staffing, insurance, and general programming — an issue impacting open streets around the borough.
The association confirmed to Brooklyn Paper that New York Presbyterian Hospital has come on board as the presenting sponsor of this year’s pedestrian-friendly plazas, in conjunction with U. Santini Moving & Storage, the Department of Transportation and the Open Streets program.