Graham Avenue, Avenue of Puerto Rico, is the largest, uniquely affordable, and growing shopping area in Williamsburg and to support its growth by encouraging new stores and 
restaurants to locate here in a concerted effort to expand its customer base for the existing businesses. The BID works to have the existing and new businesses understand and meet the needs of the BID’s current and changing shopper base. It also works to preserve and share its rich Latino culture with the rest of the city.
The BID is working on a new website for a technically challenged area, the creation of a free wifi retail environ, a virtual signage concept, holiday banners, enhanced lighting, development of our farmers market and youth employment opportunities, a global planting project we introduced through the Growing Connection at PS 257…run by the United Nations and coordinated through the Cornell Extension, marketing and advertising strategies, graffiti removal, power washing of the streets, security cameras, increased safety through discussion with our local Precinct, on going 7 days-a-week sanitation program… read more
