The big lot next to the Red Hook Ikea is on the market. Actually, it has been for months, as these signs went up in November and we’ve had these pics on our hard drive forever. The property has an interesting history as people lived there for a while and it was also home to […]

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The Red Hook Ikea started taking applications yesterday from Red Hook residents for positions at the sprawling store that will open on Beard Street in August. There is some good news and some bad news for residents with limited job experience or training. We went through Ikea’s job listings yesterday and found that the big […]

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Although the opening of the massive Ikea store on Beard Street in Red Hook has been delayed until August, the retailer is starting to hire and is taking job applications from Red Hook residents as of January 14. The Red Hook applications can only be submitted online. (The company has already filled about 20 management […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of aur2899/flickr]

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We took this photo last year in Red Hook. A film crew was shooting there and had set up this Christmas tree. That’s an old friend in the background that went away this year.

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One of the most unique holiday operations in New York City is PortSide New York’s Operation Christmas Cheer. It involves visits to dozens of working tug and barges on Christmas Day and the distribution of cookies, newspapers and cheer to the crews. This is the fourth year that PortSide is spreading joy around New York […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of luluinnyc/flickr] Normally, we’ve been running Brookyule pics without comment. However, in this case, we’ve got to say this is one of our favorite photos of the season.

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Dikeman Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of Jamiee Lynn Nelsen]

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[Photos courtesy of Carol Gardens] One of the things we love about the medium in which we work is the way that readers, in effect, become correspondents and can move the conversation forward or add to the flow of information. So it is with some photos we posted yesterday of two old florist’s signs. Those […]

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Demolition permits to level Red Hook’s iconic Revere Dome were issued on December 6, 2006. A couple of days later, crews working for developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities were on site starting prep work for the big tear down. The job continued through the winter, spring, summer and into the fall. (For those with […]

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The devpavingstoneification of Beard Street in Red Hook to make the drive smoother for the up to 50,000 a cars a week that will be coming to the neighborhood once Ikea opens next year, looks like its on schedule. Here’s a redone segment of the street, with new sidewalk and blacktop. Other cobblestone streets in […]

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American Stevedoring always puts up a Christmas display in the corner of Red Hook that the container port occupies. This year, they may have more to celebrate, as moves to evict the port seem to have died. “Perhaps this new ray of hope has encouraged them to bump up the display a bit this year. […]

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The Red Hook Ikea, which is a hub of activity as it rushes toward an opening next year, has a bit of an issue with its fence. Given that we’re always game to point out a construction or demolition site that’s open to the public, we’d be remiss in not pointing out that the fence […]

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This is one of the two barges that sank at the Ikea site in Red Hook recently. The Coast Guard writes that the barge pictured here, “which allegedly broke free from its mooring and may have struck the SEI 12, outfitted with an excavator crane, was used to remove steel from the demolition of a […]

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Need a unique piece of furniture made material rescued from a building in New York City. Then, go to 284 Van Brunt. “These guys are really giving new meaning to the phrase “straight-outta Brooklyn!” Brooklyn Farm Table not only builds extremely tasteful furniture, they do so using century-old wood that has been rescued from buildings […]

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Our email inbox was flooded yesterday with material from activists that want to prevent Ikea from chopping up several usable piers on the Red Hook waterfront. The retailer already has permission from the Army Corps of Engineers to hack them up, but activists are submitting comments objecting to the plan as part of Ikea’s application […]

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Since this has somehow turned into one of those days when there is a profusion of information on a specific topic–namely the Red Hook Ikea–we’re posting a couple of other interesting tidbits about work at the former Todd Shipyards site: 1) We were curious about the two barges that were reported to have sunk in […]

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Activists trying to influence the shape of the Ikea in Red Hook seem to have been stymied at every turn of the process, particularly in terms of efforts to preserve historic buildings on the site and protect its working Graving Dock. Because of the site’s waterfront location, the Army Corps of Engineers has played a […]

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We got an email yesterday about a fun sounding holiday event at an historic church in Red Hook. It’s a “Traditional Christmas Concert” on Sunday (12/9) at 3:00 PM at Visitation Church, which is located at Verona and Richards Street in Red Hook. The email says: “There will be lots of great traditional Christmas songs […]

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Last week, when we posted a video of workers bringing an era to an end in Red Hook by digging up the paving stones on Beard Street in advance of the opening of Ikea, we joked that they might make a reappearance in the sprawling parking lot or the waterfront “esplanade.” We had watched a […]

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Given that it’s been the week of Red Hook and “degentrification,” we thought it appropriate to offer up some vids of the neighborhood.

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H.P. Lovecraft had an interesting take on Red Hook. In The Horror at Red Hook, he wrote, “Red Hook is a maze of hybrid squalor near the ancient waterfront opposite Governor’s Island, with dirty highways climbing the hill from the wharves to that higher ground where the decayed lengths of Clinton and Court Streets lead […]

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We’ve watched a lot of things come down along Beard Street in Red Hook over the last couple of years. Yesterday, work crews were tearing out the cobblestones so that it can be paved for Ikea. Curiously, the trucks loaded with removed paving stones were being driven into the Ikea site. Given that Ikea finished […]

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From the look of the trailer that you can click above, the new Red Hook documentary A Hole in a Fence, is a valuable look at a pat of the neighborhood that is nearly being erased and recreated. The film looks at Red Hook through the big empty lot that is adjacent to the former […]

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We were prompted to scan the hard drives yesterday and, among other things, pulled up some long shots down Beard Street in Red Hook taken over the last 18 months. Here is a small series.

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