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Article: Rebellion in the heart of Brooklyn
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- New York Amsterdam News
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- August 4, 2004
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Farbman, Michele
New York Amsterdam News
08-04-2004
When the triple forces of Brooklyn Academy of Music, MetroTech and the
Atlantic Center Mall converged upon downtown Brooklyn with plans for
revitalization, the merchants of Fulton Street looked on with something
less than hope.
Brooklyn Academy of Music's show-goers and culture hounds should have
brought fresh foot traffic onto Fulton Street, but the spillover never
happened. Audiences were not drawn into the neighborhoods surrounding the
popular institution.
In all of the plans for economic revitalization of the area, no one took
into account the mom-and-pop establishments who expressed the creative,
enterprising African-American energy that Fort ...