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Are Artists Who Jump-Started Gentrification Allowed To Complain About It?
Photo via Brownstoner The obvious short answer here being “even if the aren’t, yes, they complain about it constantly.” Finding a place you can afford to live, only to be pushed out by other people who...
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Red Hook Banksy Piece Going To Auction
Building owner Vassilio Georgiadis alongside the Banksy piece he sold to Stephan Keszler. (Image via Hyperallergic) Remember last October when Banksy visited and it was all anyone could talk about?...
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Is This The Beginning of the End for Red Hook Bait and Tackle?
Photo via NYCgo It’s safe, if depressing, to operate under the assumption that every good New York dive bar is in danger of closing down at all times. Sadly, we now have another one to keep an eye on:...
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Park Slope Resident Sir Patrick Stewart Hates Strollers, Maybe Doesn’t Know...
Perhaps Park Slope’s most beloved resident, Sir Patrick Stewart has some things that he doesn’t love so much about Park Slope. Is it the neighborhood restaurants’ propensity for putting kale on their...
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Another Victim of the Lime Shortage: Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pies
Photo via Steve’s Authentic key Lime Pies A couple weeks back, we talked to local bar owners and restaurateurs about how they’re handling the ongoing lime shortage—supplies are still scarce and prices...
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Now Open: Free Weekend Ferry From Red Hook To Manhattan
The Red Hook summer ferry is back! After a not-so-brief hiatus, residents of the semi-isolated neighborhood now have completely free access to Manhattan (and Manhattanites to Red Hook) as of this past...
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Kings Pharmacy Leaving Williamsburg For Red Hook
Image: Pharmacy Owners The unbridled Times Square-ification of Williamsburg continues: Today, we’ve learned that Kings Pharmacy on Bedford Avenue and N. 3rd Street is officially closing up shop. A...
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Red Hook Residents to Vice Media: Cool It With The Parties
Residents at that not-quite-Red Hook not-quite-Carroll Gardens slice of Brooklyn known as the Columbia Street Waterfront District are not pleased about Vice Media’s recent party at the Red Hook...
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Raaka Chocolate Moves to Red Hook, Finds Yet Another Use for Whiskey Barrels
When Ryan Cheney, founder of Raaka Chocolate, opened the company’s original Clinton Hill factory in 2010, he did so with the intention of making small-batch chocolate bars from unroasted cocoa beans...
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Who’s Afraid of the Suburbs? 16 Movies to Scare You in the City
This is the perfect time of year to revisit classic scary movies—Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream—but something about walking home to the train instead of climbing the stairs out of your...
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Inside Red Hook’s Maraschino Cherry Factory
All photos by Jane Bruce The first thing you notice about the factory for Dell’s Maraschino Cherries, a warehouse-like structure that stretches over most of a city block, is the smell. That syrupy,...
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The Red Hook Lobster Pound Is Closing for Major Renovations
photo via Red Hook Lobster Pound The Red Hook Lobster Pound is gearing up for an extended crustacean vacation, but not to worry shellfish lovers—they plan to come back bigger and better than ever...
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Red Hook’s Fort Defiance Debuts All-Emoji Menu
Do most of your correspondences nowadays involve cat faces, floating hearts and fireballs, punctuated by the occasional (amongst friends, at least), grinning pile of pop-eyed cartoon poop? Then you...
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Thanks to Kao Soy, Red Hook Residents Don’t Have to Cross the BQE for...
photo via Yelp Almost entirely lacking in reasonable public transportation options (we’ve spent our entire tenure in NYC stanchly avoiding the bus), Red Hook essentially operates as an island unto its...
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Mini Golf Course Coming to Red Hook
Get ready for summer, punks, because this time in a couple months you could be completing a sweet couple of rounds of mini golf in our very own borough. Red Hook is getting a sprawling 18-hold...
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The New Red Hook Lobster Pound Has the Best Bathroom in Brooklyn
The new Red Hook Lobster Poundphoto via Instagram There’s a lot to love about the newly revamped Red Hook Lobster Pound: a full wine, beer and liquor license, allowing for blueberry soda and...
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Citi Bike Is Finally Expanding to Red Hook and Park Slope
When Citi Bike first launched in 2013, there was a lot of criticism of the city’s brand new bike share program for being only for “rich, white people.” And while we ultimately found these charges of...
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Drinking Brooklyn: The Red Hook Criterium Cocktail at Fort Defiance
Photo by Jane Bruce Sorry to burst your bubble, but the inventor of the Brooklyn cocktail was a guy who lived in Hoboken and worked in Manhattan, and it never took off after he published the recipe in...
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Inside the Robot Takeover at a Red Hook Church
Artist Chico MacMurtrie’s studio, housed in the Norwegian Seaman’s Church in Red Hook, looks less like a studio and more like that attic room of crackpot inventions where Edward Scissorhands was...
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The Deepest Dive: A New York City Pub Crawl to End All Pub Crawls
Since time immemorial, dive bars have occupied a very special place in the hearts of booze-inclined New Yorkers. We love dive bars because, much like the city itself, they’re unique, oozing with...
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