I got this comment today from OTBKB reader, Fonda Sera, owner of Zuzu’s Petals about the Seventh Avenue snowflakes and the need to  regenerate the Park Slope Chamber of Commerce.

The Seventh Avenue snowflakes are lit for the holiday season
and maybe for the last time. With Soundtrack and thom spennotta out (his store moved off the Avenue), the last survivor of the Park Slope Chamber of Commerce is gone.

Unless
a new group of merchants gather the spirit and energy to advocate for Seventh Avenue, next holiday season the street will be dark.

the Chamber was also responsible for the Community Council funding double
trash pick ups six  days a week along the Avenue. who will make sure that
doesn’t disappear?

It breaks my heart to see how spiraling commercial rent has changed  the face and altered the spirit of seventh avenue.

The last time this happened Marty Markowitz called a meeting of
merchants to try and generate new interest in the chamber. It worked.

I think it’s time someone gave Marty a call.

Fonda