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• Red Hook's Deadly Nature

  Published: July 31, 2007, 4:33 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Central Park, Chelsea, Clinton Hill, Park Slope, Red Hook, Williamsburg

  guy's stoop. [Newyorkshitty] Red Hook: Beware the dog-eating tree on Van Brunt Street. [McBrooklyn] Williamsburg: Bruce Ratner's crew is looking for an artist's workspace to use in a promotional video for investors. If you're interested, keep your I.D. a secret for your own safety. [Curbed]

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• From PJs to Condos in Fort Greene?

  Published: August 2, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Fort Greene, Long Island City, Red Hook, Union Square

  [Manhattan Offender] Red Hook: Turns out the 9th Street feral dogs begat the Revere Sugar feral dogs. And now there's only one left. [Gowanus Lounge] Union Square: Smokers are reduced to sitting on garbage bags. The indignity! [Clean NYC Now]

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• Red Hook Flower

  Published: August 12, 2007, 8:16 pm

  Tags: Red Hook

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• New Bar Alert: Liberty Heights Tap Room now Rocky Sullivan's

  Published: August 12, 2007, 7:35 pm

  Tags: Food Drink, Red Hook

  Finally did a walk-by on this, and the change to Rocky Sullivan's at 34 Van Dyke Street in Red Hook is complete on the outside. Love that the bar has its own Wikipedia page. We didn't go inside as we were rushing through Red Hook for our papusa fix at the ballfields. Anyone been?

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• Red Hook Graffiti

  Published: August 13, 2007, 8:24 pm

  Tags: Photoblog, Red Hook

  alike, "What's The Hook" encourages photographers of all backgrounds to submit digital images captured during the week of August 12th 18th. This week has been selected as it begins with Red Hook Old Timer's Day, an annual event at Red Hook Housing that has been going on for more than 30 years. Again, these don't count,

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• In a Bold Move, McCarren Pool to Replace Hipsters With Water

  Published: August 15, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Astoria, Brooklyn Heights, Mccarren Pool, Midwood, Red Hook, Roosevelt Island, Upper East Side, Williamsburg

  in Victorian Flatbush] Red Hook: OMG, all these shots of all the amazing Latin food they sell at the ball fields so makes us want to go there RIGHT NOW! But many say the informal food mall won't last now that it’s on the Health Department's radar. [Blather From Brooklyn] Roosevelt Island: A whole mess of nineteenth-century expedition

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• The March of Progress in Red Hook

  Published: August 17, 2007, 11:35 am

  Tags: Photo Op, Brooklyn, Nostalgia, Photos, Red Hook

  Photo: f.trainer's Flickr The old Revere Sugar factory in Red Hook is finally, completely no more, as Curbed called to our attention late yesterday. Ah, the future. Empty [f.trainter's Flickr via Curbed]

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• Beware of Moped Gangs

  Published: September 4, 2007, 4:17 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, East River, Jackson Heights, Park Slope, Red Hook, Roosevelt Island

  were joking. [Daily Slope] Red Hook: The planned giant IKEA will stomp out a Civil War–era shipyard. Also, taste. [NYDN] Roosevelt Island: OpenHouseNewYork will allow people into the scary old Smallpox Hospital you can see from the FDR (remember the end of Spider-Man?). And onto the Highline! [NewYorkology]

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• Old Lillie's is New Mordecai

  Published: September 10, 2007, 11:36 pm

  Tags: Food Drink, Red Hook

  was was formerly Lillie's in Red Hook. The word is that the chef behind Petit Crevette and Bouillabaisse (Neil Ganic?) will be serving food, and there will be an adjacent restaurant/music space, La Bouillabaisse. The spot will be named after Mordecai Gist ... That last bit of information makes me think "Is this for real?" Being that

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• Old Timer Revisits New York's Port

  Published: September 13, 2007, 4:23 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, Red Hook

  years. The Port Authority hired Frederic R. Harris (now DMJM Harris) to study its facilities, while the EDC engaged HR&A to study the conversion of Red Hook's port and Bermello, Ajamil & Partners to map out more cruise ship berths. An EDC official said in an e-mail, Since the 1999 port plan was completed, there have been substantial

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• Red Hook Update: Now in Yellow and Blue

  Published: September 17, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Red Hook, Real Estate Development, Retail

  Taking a look down Red Hook way, we can report that a serious dose of yellow has been added to the big blue box that has been rising on Beard Street all summer long, starting to give the entire waterfront a seriously Ikea look. The view here is down Beard Street, where the old paving stones will soon completely disappear to allow for smooth,

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• Red Hook or Costa Rica?

  Published: September 20, 2007, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Red Hook, Quicklink

  There's an eco-structure destined for tropical Costa Rica on Van Brunt Street in Red Hook. Seriously. [Brownstoner]

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• Ultimate Destructoporn: Red Hook Action Shots

  Published: September 21, 2007, 2:19 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Red Hook, Real Estate Development

  [Photos courtesy of Erin "Sniffy" Norris] You may, or may not want to hear another word about the Revere Sugar Plant in Red Hook. We thought we were done with it too. Then, these compelling action shots landed in our inbox. Over. And out. · Red Hook Update: Now in Yellow and Blue [Curbed]

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• MTA Bends to Will of Ikea

  Published: September 25, 2007, 10:22 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Red Hook, Brooklyn Williamsburg, City Life, Retail

  connects Long Island City to Red Hook but has basically become a bogged-down Williamsburg cattle car over the past few years, is in for quite the change! In an announcement buried in an amNY story and then brought to our attention by Gowanus Lounge, the MTA said that both the B61 and B77 buses will extend their routes to service the new Red Hook

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• Chicken Coops are the New Brooklyn Backyard Accessory

  Published: September 25, 2007, 9:25 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Red Hook, City Life

  Brooklynites--especially in Red Hook and Cobble Hill--are getting into chicken farming. As in, backyard coops. Today's Daily News reports that "chickens are now flocking to Brooklyn thanks to a renewed interest in eating locally grown and raised foods." One of the Red Hook chicken farmers goes so far as to call it "a trend that's in its

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