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Prospect Heights Eastern Spa
To Whom It May Concern: I am the owner of the Prospect Heights Eastern Spa located on 653 Vanderbilt Avenue. I am writing to let you know that I am not in favor of allowing Vanderbilt Avenue Open Streets to continue next year. This initiative has resulted in much less business for my store, as it
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Anonymous Vanderbilt Business Owner
To Whom It May Concern: I am writing to urge you to take whatever steps you can to ensure that Vanderbilt Open Streets does not continue in 2024. My busiest day of the week is Saturday. Many customers come to my store by car and during Open Streets weekends, they are unable to find any
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Vanderbilt Green Market
To Whom It May Concern: I am the owner of the Vanderbilt Green Market located at 657 Vanderbilt Avenue. I’m writing to encourage you not to continue the Vanderbilt Avenue Open Streets Initiative in 2024. My small business depends on weekend business. Most of my clients come by car from other parts of Brooklyn. However,
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Anonymous Vanderbilt Business Owner
The bus situation is insane, there needs to be something done about that. The Friday evening shutdown seems to be an awful lot of fuss/headache for not that much actual open street time. It hardly seems worth the money they must spend for it. The biggest issue for me though (again, just as an observer)
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The Bakery on Bergen
To Whom It May Concern: I am a proud second-generation Brooklynite. I opened the Bakery on Bergen in 2014. Customers say it is the best bakery for cookies like the chocolate chip cookie with smoked sea salt and the vanilla rum cake and many cake/cupcake flavors like ube, matcha and black sesame fig. I’ve had
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Cheryl’s Global Soul
To Whom It May Concern: I own Cheryl’s Global Soul, a restaurant I’ve been running on Underhill Avenue since 2006. I have felt a drop in business since they started closing Vanderbilt for the weekend and again now since they’ve made rerouting changes on Underhill. The current Open Streets plan on Vanderbilt creates a street
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Anonymous Vanderbilt Business Owner
To Whom It May Concern: I co-own a business on Vanderbilt that is not a restaurant or a bar. The Open Streets (OS) on Vanderbilt Avenue has a not insignificant negative impact on our business. Since the inception of OS, several regular weekend customers that traveled to our store stopped making the trip, as they are unable
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Mitchell’s Soul Food
To Whom It May Concern: I am the manager of Mitchell’s Soul Food Restaurant, a restaurant that has been serving customers for 40 years, located at 617A Vanderbilt Avenue. The Vanderbilt Avenue Open Streets has caused a significant decrease in sales on Sundays, previously our busiest day of the week. In fact, if we needed
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