Our friends at Racked produced this vid yesterday of our huge blue-and-yellow friend on Beard Street in Red Hook. Ikea also told Racked that the opening date estimated for the store that will change Red Hook in a major way is a pretty big window between March and July. Previous estimates have said spring, but […]

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What the media giveth, the media taketh away. So it is with Red Hook’s moment of gentrification, which ran for nearly two years in the press. Now, in the same way the pendulum swung too far in the direction of declaring Red Hook the Next Big Thing, there are jokes about Dead Hook and the […]

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There have been many issues with increased traffic and pedestrian safety in Red Hook in the last couple of years. So, while we don’t frequently report traffic accidents and the like, but the following story passed along to us by a GL reader gets at a broader point about what is going on in the […]

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Red Hook’s bar and restaurant scene has been taking a bit of a beating this year, but there are reports of activity at 360, which has been closed since early summer.–Eater

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We were taking some photos of the emptiness that is the site of the old Revere Sugar plant and dome in Red Hook when we looked up and saw a Stop Work Order. It is almost two weeks old, but we haven’t noted it before. The problem stems from “hazardous conditions” at “Building 9.” Given […]

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Perhaps you recall the day this summer the “submarine” was stopped in off Red Hook near the Queen Mary, spawning speculation (briefly) about terrorist plots and (then) a lot of jokes. Well, Duke Riley, the artist who launched the submarine, has a show at Magnan Projects, which is located at 317 Tenth Avenue in Manhattan. […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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How one feels about this depends on how one feels about old shipyards and, say, graving docks that have been filled in versus huge parking lots. We will note that Ikea opted not build a parking garage at its Red Hook site, preferring the cheaper solution of paving over acres of prime waterfront land and […]

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The 152 units of housing that would be built on and near Columbia Street in Red Hook will be back in front of a community meeting tomorrow. It concerns a “pre-approved” Department of Housing Preservation and Development plan for 152 units of housing, 40 percent of which would be affordable. It may not be greeted […]

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As the huge demolition project undertaken by developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities in Red Hook approaches 11 months, the last remnant of the old Revere Sugar plant that is still visible from a distance is on its way down. These photos of the tall smokestack were taken this weekend, and a big crane is […]

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The Red Hook Harvest Festival, which took place at the Red Hook Community Farm on Saturday, was one of those events that brightens our day significantly. Call us odd, but we’re just amused to see hay everywhere, pumpkins and even some chickens and a goat in Red Hook. We’ve included a photo above and below, […]

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A lot of people turned up for what was the last weekend of the vendors Red Hook Ballfields as they’ve existed. Even if the vendors are back next year, the scene will be very different. By then, Red Hook will be serving as a conduit for up to 50,000 cars a week traveling to and […]

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We checked out the Red Hook Harvest Festival at the Red Hook Community Farm yesterday. It was a great, fun event and an excellent excuse to wander around a small neighborhood farm…in Brookyn. We’ll have a full photo set tomorrow.

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Sunday is the last day for the beloved vendors at the Red Hook Ball Fields to serve up food this season. If you’ve never been or if you want another fix, today and tomorrow are it. The future of the enterprise is up in the air. The vendors have been under siege all year. First, […]

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The Red Hook Harvest Festival is today at the Red Hook Community Farm. It runs from 10AM-5PM and is located at Columbia and Sigourney Streets. (Look for the looming, blue and yellow Ikea under construction.)

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PortSide New York is looking for volunteers to help out in its very cool tanker the Mary A. Whalen (which was last noted around the city for hosting the Puccini opera Il Tabarro in September) this weekend. The basic info is above. What everyone also needs to know is that because the Whalen is docked […]

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[Photo courtesy of Chris Curen] Call it another sign of the changing times. Red Hook resident Chris Curen, who has contributed a variety of of excellent photos and stories to GL, emailed us the photo and the information that Ramberg Marine Inc., which is located at 37 Dwight Street, is toast. The company, which is […]

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We got an email yesterday noting that the alleged Brooklyn bar bandit had been caught. (Our friends at Eater also had this report.) The detail provided is as follows: In what can only be described as a scary display of stupidity, the guy that robbed the Bait and Tackle actually returned to the scene of […]

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Anyone that’s been down Beard Street in the last week or so has probably noticed that the base of one of the old shipyard cranes on the Ikea site has been covered with black netting. The cranes are getting a paint job. The color in this photo is silver or gray. We don’t know if […]

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Red Hook has a brand new art gallery opening this weekend that specializes in Iniuit Art. The gallery is located in the same magnificent old warehouse that houses the Red Hook Fairway. Inuits are native inhabitants of the Canadian arctic regions. The gallery is located at 275 Conover Street, Suite 4E. There is an opening […]

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If you’re looking for something to do with the kids on Saturday (10/13), we’re happy to present a couple of options that will make it a great weekend for petting goats and sheep. One is the Annual Harvest Festival at J.J. Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. It takes place from 11AM-4PM and […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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This is the new jazz club and restaurant in Red Hook on Beard Street that will be known as Mordecai’s. It will occupy the space that once was Lillie’s and have Ikea as its neighbor across the street. Work is progressing, albeit slowly. We found its recent doored, yet door-less, state amusing.

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The B61 and B77 buses in Red Hook are going to be extended so that they stop at the new Ikea that will open on Beard Street. (For those who are in denial that this will happen and irrevocably change Red Hook, this is one more bit of evidence that the change is coming soon.) […]

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Only the smokestack is now left. Erin “Sniffy” Norris took these amazing photos of one of the last big pieces of the old Revere Plant in Red Hook being pulled to the ground. It remains unclear what developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities, which cleared the property, intend to with it, although they will likely […]

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