New York policy expert Michael Wolff believes you can take the subway "from Red Hook to Wall Street." (Also: the Guardian believes "sleaze balls" should be two words.)
Are Streetcars Coming (Back) to Brooklyn?
Brooklyn might be seeing the return of street trolleys! The city is studying the possibility of running a mile-long streetcar line between the transportation-starved neighborhood of Red Hook and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Next, can we have the Dodgers back? [pic]
The Wall Street Journal Doesn't Know Red Hook
This is the last line of a WSJ piece today about the Brooklyn origins of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge:
Real World: Brooklyn Cast Descends on Red Hook?
It begins. The Real World: Brooklyn kids, whose imminent presence has long been looming over the funkiest borough, have finally arrived. NewYorkology posted a few pictures of some polo shirt clad mooks surrounded by a camera crew in Red Hook, their rumored neighborhood of choice. Based on the above photo, I've…
Real World: Brooklyn Moving to Red Hook
Ruh roh. The dreaded Real World: Brooklyn is on the move again. The Brooklyn Paper reports today that due to slow renovations at the BellTel lofts, the downtown BK building that MTV had originally eyed as housing for the seven vodka-infused strangers, the producers have settled on a new spot. Now the cast will likely…
Good News
"Red Hook Ballfield Vendors Get 6-Year Permit"—South Brooklyn hipsters and Mexican immigrants rejoice. [Curbed]
Don't You Dare Try to Take Away Our Red Hook Ikea
Okay, look here, Municipal Arts Society. We get that you're all invested in protecting historical beauty and charm and architectural salvaging and whatever else it is that you do, but you've chosen the wrong battle now. Do NOT fuck with our Ikea in Red Hook, or we're gonna get Swedish on your ass. By which we mean,…
