Merchants in Chinatown, NoHo and downtown Brooklyn are forming business improvement districts to help attract customers, raise property values and brighten their neighborhood’s economic future.
But Staten Island is practically a BID no man’s land, with only one of the city’s 64 such districts, Forest Avenue. And three recent attempts—on New Dorp Lane, on Bay Street, and in Great Kills — foundered, frustrating local businesses and community leaders.
