Organizers of the Great Parade met Thursday with members of local Police precincts to finalize plans for the May 2, 2010 event.
The parade will bring thousands of visitors to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, and will span a large area from Eastern Parkway to Lefferts Avenue.
Officers from the 71st and Brooklyn South Precincts discussed street closures, traffic regulations, frozen zones and safety measures, all of which will take hundreds of police officers to accomplish for the day-long event.
“The Police have been incredibly accommodating in their assistance in preparations for the parade,” said Shimmy Weinbaum, the parade’s organizer.
“They have been supportive and helpful throughout, from our first meeting a few months ago. We can’t thank them enough.”
looks great this year! go tzviki!
go shmuly…….go shmuly……………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
go sholom ber!!! ur the best!!
The community should put more trash bins on the sidewalks so it will not be the opposite of a kiddush Hashem with garbage on the sidewalk .Crown Heights needs to greet Moshiach with cleaner sidewalks.
is baumgarten offering hecht a potato chip? sure look like it maybe.
Go to the site they have a map of the parade.
Are they closing eastern pkwy to traffc for the parade?
Where will there be parking for people coming not in groups? Which streets will be closed off ?
i hope they dont make the same mistake that was done on gimmel tamuz when for “security” they make the neighborhood a frozen zone and do not “allow” people from outside neighborhhods from comming in they should arrange parking for all the outside people thatw ant to come here. and not have all teh streets closed and people will not have where to park so they will leave if we want people from other neigorhoods to come here ( remeber they think crown heights is a very very bad place) so we need to tell them come here we will… Read more »
Go Shmmy