Fifth Avenue Festival was a hot ticket!
The 20th Annual Fifth Avenue Spring Festival in Bay Ridge was a hot event, literally and figuratively! With temperatures hovering near the 90 degree mark and the hot sun blazing down on them, hundreds of thousands of Brooklyn residents came to the festival on June 2 to enjoy the carnival games, eat cotton candy, listen to their favorite local rock bands perform on concert stages, take in a pizza eating contest, and pick up items for sale at booths set up by vendors.
“Fifth Avenue is alive!” exclaimed Councilman Vincent Gentile (D-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Bensonhurst) who had a booth set up to greet constituents on the festival route.
Sponsored by the Bay Ridge Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District, the festival turned the busy shopping thoroughfare into a giant street fair. The festival began at 69th Street and ended at 85th Street, offering visitors something to do on each block.