By Ariella Cohen
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.
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By Christie Rizk
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.
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By Ariella Cohen
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.
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By Ariella Cohen
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.”
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By Ariella Cohen
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.
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By Ariella Cohen
Red Hook: The city’s new cruise ship terminal is starting to cause some rough waves in Red Hook.
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By Ariella Cohen
Red Hook: Forget Venezuela — the latest solution to the energy crisis may be in Red Hook.
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By Christie Rizk
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.
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By Ariella Cohen
Red Hook: He owns a much-loved pizzeria on the edge of Red Hook, but Gino Vitale knows the future is in condos.
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By Dana Rubinstein
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.
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By Ariella Cohen
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.
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Red Hook: It turns out that Bruce Ratner is paying a lot more for his friends than we thought.
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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.
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