The New York Times reports on the devastating flooding from Hurricane Sandy of Red Hook’s Fairway Market—a favorite of many Brooklyn Heights’ shoppers—and its impact on so many other smaller shops in the neighborhood. The 52,000sf waterfront grocery at the base of Van Brunt took on 5 feet of water and is closed indefinitely. The […]
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A Love Letter To Brooklyn Heights…
Despite moving to New York City in 1995, it wasn’t until I bought my first coop in Brooklyn Heights 12 years ago, that I first set foot in the borough of BK. In those first five years in NYC, I worked my way through three nabes—the Upper West Side, Chelsea and Tribeca—before a friend suggested […]
Maybe They’ll Call It “Chateau Buttermilk Channel”
According to this Brooklyn Paper story, a California winemaker plans to open a winery in a nineteenth century warehouse building near Fairway in Red Hook. He intends to make wines from grapes grown on the North Fork of Long Island and in the Hudson Valley.
Millman: Heights Grocery Options Stink!
Regarding the addition of a Brooklyn Heights stop to the Fairway supermarket shuttle, State Assemblywoman Joan Millman tells the Brooklyn Eagle, “We do not have adequate grocery store options in the neighborhood, so it is my hope that the free shuttle to Fairway helps address this community’s needs." The shuttle made its first stop in […]
Opera Afloat at Red Hook
Today's Times arts section features a story by Melena Ryzik (see here) about the production of Puccini's one act opera Tabarro being staged by the Vertical Player Repertory, in conjunction with PortSide New York, on the retired oil tanker Mary A. Whelan, docked at Red Hook. Heights native Judith Barnes plays Giorgetta, a longshoreman's wife […]
Freaks Pulled from Sub in Red Hook
NYPD claiming not terror related: ABC News: Authorities are questioning three men after pulling them from a submersible vessel in the East River in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to reports from ABC affiliate WABC. The men were captured near the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in downtown Brooklyn, near the massive cruise ship the Queen Mary 2, just […]
Brooklyn’s Waterfront: Kudos and Concerns
Brooklyn's cruise ship terminal, located at Pier 17 in Red Hook (photo) has been named "the nation's best new homeport" for cruises by Porthole Cruise Magazine, according to a story by Rich Calder in Wednesday's New York Post. Princess Cruise Lines, which uses the terminal along with its sister company Cunard, has also honored Brooklyn […]
‘Heights Dreams for Red Hook Pizzaman
BrooklynPapers.com: A Slice of Red Hook: Nearby on Coffey Street between Conover and Ferris streets, Vitale is putting up two new $1.2-million brick carriage-house-style office buildings that he will build to look like they could’ve been on the spot 110 years ago if Red Hook had ever been as wealthy as, say, Brooklyn Heights. “Why […]
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