Saving Montague Street: BHA survey seeks plan for revitalization of Brooklyn Heights’ ‘Main Street’
One-fifth of Montague storefronts empty amid COVID crisis
Montague Street is a unique commercial strip, with a civic center at one end and the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, a popular tourist attraction, at the other.
The unofficial “Main Street” of New York’s first historic district should be a dream location for popular retail stores and restaurants, but the street has been plagued by vacancies for decades. Now, amid COVID-19, the bottom is falling out.
“I will not easily forget those early weeks of the COVID shutdown when we were going out once a week, and Montague Street was completely deserted,” Erika Belsey Worth, president of the Brooklyn Heights Association, told the Brooklyn Eagle recently. Worth, an architect, moved to Montague Street with her husband and their two sons in 2001.