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Red Hook

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Hey, Bruce, listen up!

Red Hook: Rocker Dan Zanes — the Bob Dylan of the under-10 set — packed an anti-Atlantic Yards benefit concert Saturday at Hanson Place United Methodist Church in Fort Greene. The former Del Fuegos frontman, a member of the celeb-packed Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn advisory board, performed his folk-tinged anthems after being introduced by fellow board member Steve Buscemi. Comment.

Ratner buys friends

Red Hook: It turns out that Bruce Ratner is paying a lot more for his friends than we thought. Comment.

Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006

Yale on Hook: Park and park

Red Hook: What do you get when you put the future of Red Hook into the hands of some of the Ivy League’s brightest young architects? A big parking lot. Comment.

Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006

Red hot Red Hook? How’s ‘lukewarm’

Red Hook: Dianna Munz knows hot. Comment.

Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006

Hookers get block group

Red Hook: All the new moms along a once-lonely stretch of the Brooklyn waterfront didn’t just give birth to children — they also delivered a new neighborhood association. Comment.

Saturday, Aug. 19, 2006

A slice of Red Hook

Pizza guy spins pies, builds condos

Red Hook: He owns a much-loved pizzeria on the edge of Red Hook, but Gino Vitale knows the future is in condos. Comments (1).

Saturday, Sep. 23, 2006

In Red Hook, kayakers cry ‘No parking!’

Red Hook: It’s the same old excuse over and over again: The reason that no one kayaks to Red Hook is because there’s no parking. Comment.

Saturday, June 17, 2006

‘Bullet busses’ sought for Flatbush Av

Red Hook: Busses would speed down traffic-clogged Flatbush Avenue — or other congested routes — under a proposed “Bus Rapid Transit” program unveiled by city officials this week. Comment.

Saturday, Nov. 11, 2006

Red Hook’s ship is out

Last cruiser gone for season

Red Hook: The Queen Mary 2 has set sail from Red Hook for the last time this season — and already Brooklyn longshoremen are calling for the one-summer-old terminal to operate year-round. Comment.

Saturday, Nov. 25, 2006

Suit to block IKEA

Red Hook: Swedish furniture giant IKEA may soon find that assembling a new store in Red Hook is about as easy as assembling one of their chairs. Comments (1).

Saturday, Sep. 23, 2006

An energy solution on Hook

Red Hook: Forget Venezuela — the latest solution to the energy crisis may be in Red Hook. Comment.

Saturday, Sep. 30, 2006

Cruise bus snub drives them mad

Red Hook: The city’s new cruise ship terminal is starting to cause some rough waves in Red Hook. Comment.

Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006

Badillo: Luxury apartments at Columbia piers

Red Hook: Republican insider and political power broker Herman Badillo has submitted a bid to turn Brooklyn’s last working port into a 1,500-unit housing development and a campus for charter schools and a college. Comment.

Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006

Mickey Mouse plan

Critics rip Disneyesque theme park on Red Hook piers

Red Hook: Elected officials from Washington to City Hall this week derided Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to turn the Red Hook and Cobble Hill waterfront into a maritime-themed tourist attraction as “Disney on the Waterfront.” Comment.
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