North Adams Hopes to Explore, Incorporate Dutch Street Concept

A section of the city’s downtown might someday take on a decidedly international flavor. The city hopes to use about $25,000 to $30,000 in Community Development Block Grant funding to fund a feasibility study that would explore the concept of a “woonerf” on Eagle Street. “Eagle Street has a lot of character, and we want to enhance that character,” said Larysa Bernstein, the city’s community development director, who stressed that the project remains in its very initial stages. Read more about Dutch influences in North Adams >>