Fifth Avenue celebrates spring with a spectacular street fair
A belly dancer, a pizza-eating contest, a wine tasting, live music, children’s rides and games, sausage stands and balloon animals are all things that you won’t usually find in the same sentence. But they were all part of the sights and sounds on Bay Ridge’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday.
Hundreds of thousands of people are turned out to enjoy the 21st Annual Fifth Avenue Spring Festival, a spectacular street fair sponsored by the Bay Ridge Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District (BID). The festival, a celebration of spring, takes place each year in early June.
“I got the weather I wanted!” BID Jim Clark told the Brooklyn Eagle as he walked along the avenue with BID Executive Director Patrick Condren. The BID, which has an office at 8114 Fifth Ave., represents the interests of hundreds of property owners and merchants on the busy, commercial avenue.