Ice Cream Girl’s idea: Belt Parkway sign to welcome visitors
Maria Campanella loves Bensonhurst and Bath Beach so much she believes the Department of Transportation should erect a sign at the Belt Parkway’s Bay Parkway exit to welcome visitors to the area as they’re getting off the highway.
“Bath Beach and Bensonhurst are beautiful communities and we should be telling everybody that,” Campanella told this newspaper.
Campanella is a legendary figure throughout Southwest Brooklyn known as “Maria the Ice Cream Girl” due to her many years as an ice cream truck driver selling ice cream on local streets and outside of schools. She presented her new idea to Community Board 11, where it generated a positive reaction at a recent meeting. Campanella is a former board member.