Hello,



Williamsburg Walks is organizing a brainstorming session to solicit your ideas on how to make the event fun, memorable, and fulfilling. This is a chance for you to get your questions answered, to share your suggestions and to support the event in general.

At the session, the organizers will update the group on our latest progress planning the event and conduct a brainstorming session about the kind of programming the community would like to see happen on their street. The session will take place on Wednesday April 21st from 6 to 8 pm at Teddy’s Bar & Grill, 96 Berry Street (corner of N8th Street) in Williamsburg.

This year Williamsburg Walks is organized by Neighbors Allied for Good Growth and the L Magazine with the support of Project for the Public Spaces. The event is happening on Saturday June 26th and Sunday June 27th on a car-free Bedford Avenue (N4th St. to N9th St.). This new format is in response to opinions expressed by groups in the community and comes from a desire by the organizers to find an inclusive and sustainable model for the years to come.

This is an event by the community for the community at which we want people to go ‘woaa, I did not know you could do that on the street’. Together, we will create a place where everyone can relax or shop and think all the while.

For more information, visit williamsburgwalks.org or contact us at williamsburgwalks@gmail.com.

Gregor

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:: Gregor Nemitz-Ziadie

:: Event Organizer

:: Williamsburg Walks 2010

:: williamsburgwalks@gmail.com

:: williamsburgwalks.org

The position of Jumelle has been wrongly presented in recent articles about Williamsburg Walks. We have contaced the staff writer with our concerns as some of the quotes were entirely fabricated.

Jumelle has been an active participant in the community for over four years and we simply wish to set the record straight.

Word!

Another community victory against DOT, the nerds at Public Space, TransAlt, and the day-glo tank top crowd who have infested it of late.

So retarded. So did any of the stores that are actually on the road that gets closed off complain? I'll try to remember to yell fuck you every time I pass on my way to Tops.

I think williamsburg walks are a great stepping stone to making Bedford Ave a pedestrian thoroughfare.

The sidewalks along that strip are tiny, tiny and there are two rows of street parking a street that is congested. Make that shit car-free.

Please, Williamsburg Walks is the one of the most ridiculous things that neighborhood has come up with. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to allow all of the crap people are selling on the sidewalks to be moved to the streets. It's about time they did away with that nonsense. You want to walk aimlessly in the middle of the street? Then go find yourself a NYC street fair to wander through.

A&G Merch is a block away from Williamsburg Walks. This is incredibly ridiculous.

I definitely won't be shopping at Jumelle anymore. How on Earth could a community pedestrian event hurt sales? It doesn't make any sense. Maybe they forgot that there was a recession going on last year.

I'd rather shop at any of the 5 other stores on that block that sell the same stuff as Jumelle anyways. At least they aren't anti-community.

you call that a community? Neighborhood is nothing more than a bunch of transients with day glow tank tops and bikes they can barely ride.

So the stores I will no longer patronize are:

Jumelle

A&G Merch

Thanks!

x3 and growing.

Take that Jill; your wonderful plan is helping you lose customers already.

x2

Looks like this will coincide with the Northside Festival. Endless Summer better hire extra staff.