12.15.2004

Commerce Bank looking to land in Park Slope

...and with an entrance just for cars! Yup, on no longer up-and-coming, already arrived Fifth Avenue, Commerce Bank is hoping to build a branch that features a non-too-often seen in NYC service - DRIVE THRU! (This being America and all, I had to use the shortened version). Why the hell would Commerce Bank want to do that? Why not just build a branch without drive-through?

What's interesting to me is that the people who are opposed to it, Park Slope Neighbors, say that there is NO-one in Park Slope that is interested in this issue. So I ask...

What about the Fifth Avenue Committee, who I have found to be wonderful with community organizing? Or the Brooklyn Transportation Alternatives? Or just Trans Alt's "Reducing Automobile Dependence Campaign (maybe that should be renamed???)? There's also the Park Slope Civic Council, but I found their outlook to be a bit off-putting and exclusive. Not everyone lives in a floor-through brownstone!

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