Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Red Hook

B77 Riders Protest Service Cuts. Is Velmanette Montgomery Listening?

By Ben Fried | Apr 6, 2009 | 3 Comments

Without a rescue plan from Albany, say goodbye to night-time service on the B77. Photo: Clarence Eckerson. It’s a long walk from the Red Hook West houses to the nearest subway stop at Smith-9th Street, and even longer to train connections at Fourth Avenue. Without night-time B77 service, a lot of commuters from the largest […]

Design Comp Winner Envisions Neighborhood Bike-Share for Red Hook

By Ben Fried | Nov 12, 2008 | 2 Comments

The bike loft at the Smith-9th Street station designed by competition winner Jonathan Rule. The Forum for Urban Design announced the winner of its Red Hook bicycle plan competition Monday night, awarding top honors to Brooklyn native Jonathan Rule. The competition sought out ideas to make transit-poor Red Hook the city’s most bikeable neighborhood, asking […]

Eyes on the Street: Red Hook Ikea Parking Lot Opens for Business

By Ben Fried | Jun 18, 2008 | 47 Comments

We hate to pile on more bad news today, but these tipster-submitted photos of the Brooklyn Ikea grand opening bear witness to the onslaught of traffic about to engulf Red Hook. Apparently, the cars queuing up for cheaply-constructed furniture are stretching the store’s 1,400 parking spaces to the max (which would explain why Ikea thought […]

Can Red Hook Become NYC’s Most Bike-Friendly Neighborhood?

By Brad Aaron | May 2, 2008 | 16 Comments

Earlier this week, the Forum For Urban Design announced the Red Hook Bicycle Master Plan Design Competition, offering cash prizes for the best proposals to "re-imagine Red Hook as the most bicycle friendly neighborhood in all of New York." Plans should center on the creation of a bike loft parking facility at the Smith/9th Street […]

Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Benefit This Thursday

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 25, 2007 | 1 Comment

When I first met Brian McCormick, Milton Puryear and Meg Fellerath in the spring of 2002, they were picking up trash and planting tulips alongside a Brooklyn-Queens Expressway off-ramp in Cobble Hill. I asked them what they were up to and they told me they were working to create a waterfront greenway for Brooklyn — […]

The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook

By Ethan Kent | Feb 12, 2007 | 6 Comments

How can we get drivers to respect the communities they are driving though? How can we make traffic slow down if we can’t change the design of the street or the timing of the lights? How can a community reclaim its neighborhood streets? For a few short hours last weekend, Red Hook, Brooklyn, had an […]

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