2008-09 Shopping & Dining Guide Released

The printed Myrtle Avenue Shopping & Dining Guide's 2008-09 edition hits the stores next week, with its release at the block party on Sunday, July 13th. The new 7-panel guide features listings of over 150 small mom and pop businesses located along Myrtle Avenue, along with their addresses and cross streets, phone numbers, websites.

The cover of this year's guide features merchant photos from the ‘Home Grown & Locally Owned’ marketing campaign. This cover pays homage to the small, mom-n-pop businesses that line Myrtle Avenue’s commercial corridor, while encouraging local residents to get to know their neighborhood entrepeneurs and to shop close to home in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

The listed businesses represent the rich and wide diversity of enterprises along the Avenue, from much loved old and new cafes and restaurants; to the local hardware store, an offshoot of the old Adami Hardware that recently closed its doors after 35 years in the business; to a popular new dance and yoga studio and funky local artisans—including a local jewelry maker and fashion designer.

The guide also includes a 4-paneled map, complete with arrows to local subway and bus lines and a list of local jaunts and destinations: the sprawling Pratt Institute campus and 25-acre sculpture park; celebrated poet Walt Whitman’s former home; as well as Fort Greene Park and the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument. Also included is the Brooklyn Urban Arts Market, Myrtle’s vibrant new open-air market which kicks off this year on July 27th.

Pick up a copy of the 2008-09 Myrtle Avenue Shopping & Dining Guide, starting this Sunday, July 13th. Guides will then be available to pick-up at avenue stores, at Brooklyn Urban Arts Market Sundays, the Brooklyn Tourism Center, the Fort Greene Park Visitors Center, and by mail if requested while supplies last.