Bed-Stuy Gateway and the Fulton-Nostrand Revitalization Project

Bed-Stuy Gateway Family Fun Fest! Main Stage Schedule and other details

The rides are ordered, the performers are ready to go, and the weather is looking bright. It looks like it's going to be a bright, pleasant summer day for a fun-filled Bed-Stuy Gateway Family Fun Fest!

Proceeds from the sale of attraction tickets and tent entry tickets to this Saturday’s event will support the Bed-Stuy Gateway Business Improvement District Formation Campaign, a project of the Fulton-Nostrand United Merchants Association and Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation’s Commercial Revitalization Program.

There are 26 exhibitors selling a variety of arts and crafts, jewelry, fresh cut flowers and other unique goods that will definitely not be like your typical New York City street fair selection. Food vendors will be providing food items such as Roti, Fish and Chips, Jamaican-style jerk chicken, and vegetarian West-Indian dishes.

The Doe Fund will be offering free hamburgers, hot dogs and lemonade from their booth.

Tickets for the carnival-style attractions will be sold at the following rate: 13 tickets for $5. Tickets will only be sold in $5 increments. 

Ticket fees for the carnival-style attractions are as follows:

• Giant Castle Moonwalk - 4 tickets
• Dunking Booth – 4 tickets
• Inflate-a-hoops - 3 tickets
• High Striker - 3 Tickets
• Plinko - 2 Tickets
• Ring-the-Bottle - 2 tickets
• Tic-tac-toe - 2 tickets
• Tip-a-troll - 2 tickets
• African-style Face Painting - Free

Each person who attends the event may receive one free ticket which they can redeem for one serving of one of the following items: snow cone, cotton candy or popcorn. One item per person please. To receive a free ticket, attendees simply need to go to the ticket booth and ask for the free treat coupon. 

The Family Fun Fest main stage is programmed with a variety of exciting, family-friendly entertainment acts: Headlining the stage at 4pm is National Gospel Recording Artist Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson who will be preceded by the female Gospel quartet, The Sionettes. Admission to the tent for the Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson/The Sionettes performance is $5 per person, with children 5 and under free. All other performances during the day are no charge. The stage schedule for the entire day is as follows.

Bed-Stuy Gateway Family Fun Fest Main Stage

DJ Services by DJ Master Joe Love

• 12:00-12:30pm: Bernard Gifted (no fee) - Brooklyn-based reggae/rap performer
• 1:00pm-1:20pm: Opening Ceremony (no fee)
• 1:20pm-1:50pm: the Restoration Youth Arts Academy Dance Theatre Company (no fee)
• 2:00pm-2:30pm: The Remnants - A dynamic rhythmic step performance by one of Brooklyn's finest step teams, set to uptempo R&B music (no fee)
• 3:00pm-3:45pm: The Sionettes - This female Gospel quartet and band from West Hempstead, NY has travelled across the country for over 15 years, and have shared the stage with such notables as Shirley Caesar, The Christianaires, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Lee Williams, Darryl McFadden and Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson. They inspire crowds with their heavenly harmonies, dynamic stage performance and inspiring, uplifting message of hope and love. ($5 admission fee, children 5 and under free)
• 4:00pm-5:00pm: Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson - Crowning the day’s entertainments, national recording artist Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson, whose latest album entitled “Just Being Me” was just released by the Zomba Recording label, will provide the day's headlining performance. One of the most dynamic entertainers in music, Mr. Johnson initially rose to the top of the charts in 1998 with his first hit, "Hide Behind the Mountain." A Bed-Stuy native, Mr. Johnson melds the traditional Gospel quartet sound with jazz, R&B, rock and country influences, and is affectionately known as the "new sound" in Quartet music. ($5 admission fee, children 5 and under free)
• 5:15-6:00pm: Musical Performances by the Dean Street and Revere Place Block Association youth arts performers (no fee)

Brooklyn Record: $4.5 Million Makeover For Fulton Street

We've been so busy organizing the Bed-Stuy Gateway Family Fun Fest! that we really haven't had a chance to do much posting on the Internets lately. But we just came across this little article on the Brooklyn Record regarding the construction that's been going on on Fulton Street in Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy.

Fulton Street, from Clinton Avenue to Bedford Avenue sure is undergoing some major reconstruction work. Representatives from the NYC Dept. of Design and Construction attended the May and June Fulton-Nostrand United Merchants Association meetings, in which they indicated that the current project, between Clinton Avenue and Bedford Avenue is slated for 18 months of work beginning in July 2006. After that project is done in late 2007, the DDC Reps said that they believe that work will begin on Fulton Street east of Bedford Ave. Hooray for street improvements! So it appears that Keyspan and ConEd are relocating their utilities up and down Fulton Street in anticipation of major reconstruction work in the near future.

Link: Brooklyn Record: $4.5 Million Makeover For Fulton Street.