file photo Ridgewood street fair
Ridgewood News editorial: A plaza for pedestrians
AUGUST 15, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2014, 12:31 AM
Few believed a pedestrian plaza in Times Square would work, let alone become a permanent fixture in the middle of New York City’s Crossroads of the World. Both happened
In 2008, the American Planning Association bestowed its Great Public Spaces honor to the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington, Vt. There, pedestrians freely walk on store-lined Church Street in an outdoor mall setting.
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Sounds like a good idea hopefully it will happen.
The street fair attracts vendors and patrons from a wide range of towns. Attending it is a crowded, tacky, unpleasant, un-Ridgewood-feeling experience that detracts from our own shops and that I will never repeat. I wish it were canceled–as it probably will be if the blue laws are changed, because then some of our shops would be open and the C of C surely wouldn’t permit them to be co-opted like that.
I been saying this for years. we should shut down ridgewood av from maple to brod st in the summer time for more week end events. it will bring more people into the c b d .
Sounds like a good idea #3 however to minimize traffic congestion on Franklin I would only shut down E. Ridgewood from Friday at 7pm until Sunday at say 10pm.
another bad idea…
Make E Ridgewood Ave one way West-to-East