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DON'T MISS!: ON THE AVENUE
A cavalcade of culinary delights, dance troupes and brass bands will line a mile of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue during tomorrow afternoon’s first-ever Atlantic Avenue Extravaganza.
Among the 300 businesses at the bash, which toasts the new Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District, are longtime Middle Eastern shop Sahadi’s (since 1948), offering free tastes of four new hummus flavors, and newer Nicky’s Vietnamese Sandwiches, with free banh mi samples.
Nonfood festivities include calligraphy and kendo (Japanese martial arts) demos at Silk Road Antiques and a performance by the Brooklyn Steppers Marching Band.
“I think you can consider Atlantic Avenue as Brooklyn’s main street,” says Josef Szende, Atlantic Avenue BID’s executive director. “All of Atlantic Avenue’s past is here today . . . there are a lot of Middle Eastern businesses, antique stores that we’re known for and also new boutiques that are [forming] the next phase of Atlantic Avenue.”
It’s all free from 1 to 5 p.m. on Atlantic Avenue from the BQE to Fourth Avenue. Details at atlanticavenuebid.wordpress.com.
—Christina Amoroso