Pitkin Avenue Business Improvement District

KNICKS IN 5. OPEN STREETS IN FULL EFFECT. 🏀☀️

The Knicks brought home the win. Now it’s our turn to bring the energy to the block. 🎉

12 Weeks. One Block. Endless Summer.

Pitkin Avenue Open Streets returns every Wednesday from June 24 through September 9 at the Thatford Cul-de-Sac.

We’re looking for community partners, artists, performers, wellness leaders, nonprofits, businesses, and anyone with something fun to share. 🎨🎶

Want to table? Host an activity? Lead a workshop? Bring the vibes?

Pull up. ✨

Link in bio to sign up.

As the new Executive Director of the Pitkin Avenue BID, it has been a complete pleasure to be part of Small Business Climate Resilience Program, which designs and delivers projects to build resilience to climate change in business communities that are the backbone of many cities. 🌆

It was an even greater honor to be invited to speak on a panel today at the 7th Annual National Adaptation Forum , where I spoke about past and present projects, from canopy shading and tree guard installations to our tree guard benches which will be installed by this summer.

Our businesses have benefited greatly, from utility cost savings to cooling measures like solar control film that help keep interiors cooler. Thank you to the Mayor’s Office for continuing to include Brownsville in this work; we are deeply grateful to be part of Climate Strong Communities and look forward to sharing more from our partnership!

Big thank you to the for coming out last week for business engagement along the corridor.
We had great conversations with local businesses and shared information about a local grant opportunity through
If you missed it, there’s still time to apply.

Deadline is April 30th.
More info in our bio.

When we think about the true meaning of resurrection, it refers to bringing something dead back to life, to restore and revitalize, and that was truly our intention this year and for the path forward.

To showcase that we are the Wonderland we have always dreamed of and the chosen people of God. Divided we are nothing, but unified we are stronger. We still have faith and hope that together we will continue restoring our community and showcasing all of the joy that resides here.

We would like to thank our State Senator .persaud , our incredible Assemblymember ,our City Council member, and our District Leader, Anthony Jones for taking the time to celebrate and have fun with us, and we are grateful to our wonderful Community Board16, and the organizations that pour into this event every year. To the staff and volunteers who pulled this together we appreciate you!🙏🏽

Next year we will be back bigger and better. To the families, the Pitkin Avenue BID would like to thank you for keeping the businesses on our corridor open.

We hope you had a wonderful Easter!

You’re invited to Brownsville Wonderland, our Annual Easter Egg Hunt and Festival, on Saturday, April 4 from 12 PM to 4 PM at Zion Triangle on Pitkin Avenue and Legion. We are excited to partner with local community-based organizations and the Wildlife Conservation Society, who will distribute free NYC Aquarium 🐠 and Bronx Zoo 🐻 tickets 🎟️ while supplies last. Bring the family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 for games 🎯, music 🎶, prizes 🏆, giveaways 🎁 and more. Don’t be late for this Easter date! 🐰🥚📍

Spring Clean Up vibes in Brownsville 🌸🧹

So much love to everyone who came out, especially our youth 💚 y’all showed up and showed OUT!

We cleaned along the Bike Bus route and made real impact block by block ✨Shoutout to all the orgs who pulled up and supported 🤝🏾

Thank you to all our partners + for pulling up! More to come 👀