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PlanningBd.6: NoRubberStampingCommunity Planning District 6 encompasses an area whose unwieldy size is matched by its diversity. The district includes South Brooklyn, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Gowanus and Windsor Terrace. The Heights and the two Hill communities border the downtown redevelopment area, and so are directly affected by and concerned with its future.%u201c But downtown redevelopment really has a borough-wide effect,%u201d says the planning district%u2019s chairman, Gerard Carey of Park Slope. %u201c Our community planning board has been involved in various ways with the downtown redevelopment people. They seem professional and idealistic, and they have our good-will. But that doesn%u2019t mean we rubber-stamp them.%u201c Borough President Leone is our liaison with downtown redevelopment; his office alerts us when anything to do with the redevelopment plans affects our planning area. We%u2019ve been involved-in a positive way, 1 think-with the Schermerhorn Project; with the Atlantic Avenue restoration [a plan for preservation of a commercial/ residential strip from Court Street to Flatbush Avenue], where some sort of zoning change probably will be required; and with the new Family Court building on Livingston Street.%u201dOn the subject of downtown redevelopment, Mr. Carey expressed his personal view that the need for such a project is %u201c critical,%u201d and that Community Planning Board 6 is favorably disposed toward it.Fulton St.Continuedists had predicted that both the Bridge and then the new borough status would drain Brooklyn of business. But, although in 1880 Fulton was still lined with the wagons of farmers selling their produce, by 1890 Brooklyn was the third largest city in the nation. Farm produce was sold now at the Wallabout market near the Navy Yard, where there was room for 400 farmers%u2019 wagons.In 1884, a tall, thin man-of whom there exists a photograph in which he carries a peddler%u2019s pack on his back-had emigrated from Europe. He was Hyman Zeitz, who founded Martin%u2019s in 1911.Fulton Street continued to prosper. By the late 1960%u2019s, A & S was the third largest store in America in sales, and New York%u2019s second largest. Martin%u2019s was doing more bridal business than any other store in the U.S. and was one of the largest family-owned specialty stores. A & S had opened its Annex in 1959, 25,000 square feet on the site of the old Grand Opera House. (In the early 1900%u2019s, a popular play at the Opera House was a musical, %u201c Hanlon%u2019s SuperbA + f i t n n o u A i i n n K a c o K o llteam, later to be named the Brooklyn Dodgers, was managed by Ned Hanlon and became known around town as %u201c Hanlon%u2019s Superbas.%u201d )And there is Mays, Korvette%u2019s, Woolworth%u2019s, Sachs, McCrory%u2019s Variety Store, Gage & Tollner%u2019s '90%u2019s look, the R.K.O. Albee, an**%u25a0%u00bb/%u25a0*%u00ab r< A n n lo A / i / fU A m a n VSIVA U U I V U 1V O V ^/M IW V V \\ U k V > %u00bb W IIwho started it had a foster son who asked %u201c Who%u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?%u201d ), etc., etc. Take a walk along Fulton Street.A p ril 25,1974 P H O EN IX Page 29Borough President Sebastian Leone presides over emergencysession at City Hall where he rallied civic and business leaders to enlistthem in campaign to bring Baruch College campus to downtown%u2019sAtlantic Terminal Renewal Area.Our Man inBrooklyn is morethan your BankerHe%u2019s your bank. He%u2019s one of Chemical%u2019s new breed of business banking specialists. He%u2019s fully qualified and authorized to solve your business problems on his own%u2014 without red tape, without having to check back with the main office. Anything a bank does, our man can do himself. In most cases, right on the spot. Naturally, our man is more than one man or one woman. There are many. Each trained and ready to help you make full use of Chemical%u2019s many banking services %u2014financing, factoring, payroll management, leasing, international banking, dozens of others. If you need a banker who can pitch in when problems come up %u2014and handle all your banking needs directly %u2014call Joe Kuhn at 625-6111 or stop in at one of the fifteen Brooklyn offices listed below.50 Court Street (Borough Hall)79 Hamilton Avenue (Summit Street)55 Flatbush Avenue (Livingston Street) 894 Manhattan Avenue (Greenpoint Ave.) 280 Graham Avenue (Grand Street)1580 Fulton Street (New York Avenue) 957 Broadway (Myrtle Avenue)401 Flatbush Avenue (Eighth Avenue)857 Flatbush Avenue (Linden Boulevard)l(i00 Cortelyou Road (East Kith Street) 6629 Bay Parkway (West 8th Street) 8418 Bay Parkway (85th Street)2750 Coney Island Avenue I Dunne Court)1900 Ralph Avenue (Flatlands Avenue) Flntlands Shopping Center 1165 Rockaway Avenue (Avenue D) Flatlands Industrial ParkC k em icalBaiskO u r m an is your bankM em b er 1 D 1 (