Shoppers look for bargains outside stores in new business improvement district along Southern Blvd. in Longwood.
Southern Blvd Gets BID To Help Residents & Businesses Living
A major shopping strip in the South Bronx has become the city’s newest business improvement district - joining such BIDs as Times Square and downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Street.
On New Year’s Eve, Mayor Bloomberg signed into law a plan by business and property owners in the Southern Blvd. area of Longwood that will increase their property taxes to pay for additional sanitation services, security, graffiti removal, marketing and Christmas lights.
Owners in the new district, which runs from 163rd St. and Hunts Point Ave. to Westchester Ave., also hope to create a parking lot to both raise money and make shopping more convenient, and to add extra lighting on the streets, which will allow businesses to stay open later.
They hope the improvements will attract new and bigger retailers, reduce crime in the area, and make it a more pleasant place to shop.
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