The Sunnyside Shines Business Improvement District, working with the Queens Lighting Collective and Holiday Street Lights, funded by the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) has unveiled a new lighting initiative on Greenpoint Avenue, one of the main commercial corridors of Sunnyside, Queens.

In 2024, the Sunnyside Shines Business Improvement District applied to the NYC Department of Small Business Services for their Public Realm Grant, a very competitive grant. Sunnyside Shines was selected to implement our Greenpoint Lighting Initiative and awarded $100,000.

The BID had just worked with the Queens Lighting Collective (QLC), a local group of Sunnyside lighting designers on our Urban Design Forum Grant, where they had crafted the Gateway to Sunnyside lighting installation in S

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