Fulton St mall and Brooklyn Industries

I have a couple questions here.....

First leaving from Times Square, which subway route is the best to take to the Fulton St mall? I%26#39;ve checked the website and can%26#39;t seem to find an address (I realize the street is a few miles long).

Also if we want to walk the Brooklyn bridge back to Manhattan, can you walk to the bridge from the mall area?

Second which of the Brooklyn Industries stores is closest to the Fulton St mall?

Thanks in advance for your help!!

Fulton St mall and Brooklyn Industries

The fulton mall in brooklyn is the part of fulton street between Flatbush ave and Addams Street. It is not an inclosed shopping mall but rather a section of the Fulton street that is closed to auto traffic. The term MALL originally meant an area for pedestrains, like the Mall in Washington DC.

Here is the fulton mall web site: http://www.fultonstreet.org/

There is a brooklyn industries store on Smith Street about 6 blocks from Fulton, just head down smith street to the store. Smith street starts at fulton so there is only one direction to go, but you will be heading toward Atlantic Ave, just ask a local if you need help finding it.

Finally Adams St runs righ to the brooklyn bridge. At the Adams Street end of the Mall turn right and walk to the bridge.

There is a website that will help a lot with directions here: www.hopstop.com

Fulton St mall and Brooklyn Industries

Also, beware that the Fulton Street mall area has pretty much nothing to offer out of towners. It%26#39;s a collection of mostly small, mostly low priced shops catering to a mostly low-income minority clientele.

The landlords in the area are actually trying to push the Fulton Street merchants out as part of the process of seeding downtown Brooklyn with luxury condominiums. The landlords feel that the Fulton Street merchants are too ';downscale'; for the image they are trying to project. Existing local residents, led by local African-American politicians, are fighting the effort, saying that Fulton Street is a greatly valued and successful shopping hub for existing local residents.

In other words, Fulton Street is great for locals, but tourists may be underwhelmed. That%26#39;s OK - not everything in NYC is for tourists. People who work at Duane Reade need somewhere to shop that they can afford on $10/hour.