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It takes the collective power of neighbors to successfully steward a neighborhood. For well over 100 years, there are records of Myrtle Avenue business owners and neighbors working together to make this a great place to live.
In 1999, these longstanding community efforts, which ebb and flow over the decades, resulted in the creation of a new non-profit called the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project LDC, also known as “MARP.” After 20+ years, MARP formally ended its operations and passed the torch to stewarding Myrtle Avenue to the Myrtle Avenue BID, its partner organization which it helped to originally create.
Below is a brief lookback at the many efforts and successes MARP had over its 23-year life, all of which can be attributed to hundreds of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill neighbors who worked together in partnership in caring for Myrtle Avenue.