Red Hook Containerport to Stay
The Port Authority is likely to approve a 10-year lease renewal with American Stevedoring Inc. at the Red Hook port, according to an article in today’s Daily News, which means the city’s controversial plans to build housing and a marina on the waterfront are officially dead. City and state support for the new development on…
The Port Authority is likely to approve a 10-year lease renewal with American Stevedoring Inc. at the Red Hook port, according to an article in today’s
Daily News, which means the city’s controversial plans to build housing and a marina on the waterfront are officially dead. City and state support for the new development on the Red Hook waterfront, which was supposed to include a beer garden and a hotel, has dwindled over the past several months. A spokesperson for Gov. Spitzer said “the governor supports a long-term deal on the port to insure the future of maritime activity…shipping is good for the city and job growth is good for the city.”
Red Hook Port Deal Shipshape [NY Daily News]
Photo by SHARPSHOOTA.com
Red Hook always was a mixed neighborhood, industries, docks and houses for the workers. That is it’s character. Warehouses, docks and houses side by side.
I actually like that we keep using the waterfront for shipping (cruise ships, American Stevedoring). I do not want it to turn into Williamsburg. We have one already. But I hate the IKEA invasion. That is just so not Red Hook.
But, then they will have a ferry, so maybe that’s waterfront use.
denton,
That’s not where the shipping yard is. People live all along Columbia Street from Atlantic down to Woodhull. Get a clue.
Thanks you Jeremy.
2:03, predominantly residential? Since when, a coupla decades? Red Hook was heavy industry. Look around.
Guest at 10:37, the freight tunnel would actually come in further down in Sunset park, closer to Bay Ridge, but you are absolutely right about it’s importance.
People do covet Brooklyn’s waterfront. What do you call Dumbo. Also shipping isn’t being run out of town, just moved to a locale that is mroe fitting for industrial. This area is predominantly residential.
So, let’s get this straight. In Bushwick, where industry is pretty much finished, and residential demand for former manufacturing space is massive — the City refuses to rezone or allow residential use. But in Red Hook, with viable, in-demand, already-existing and -operating industry, the City seeks to run this industry out of town and build some superblock municipal redevelopment garbage. This isn’t Miami, people don’t covet the waterfront in Brooklyn.
Totally ass-backwards insane.
Does anyone know how this affects the Brooklyn Greenway bike path? Isn’t it suppose to run down Columbia ad Van Brunt which is right in front of this shipping yard.
I believe most of these container ports are just south of Atlantic, an area some like to call Cobble Hill West or Carroll Gardens West. This area is easily accessible to transportation and is mostly residential (like Tiffany Place) already. There are great businesses like Alma that already exists. This could have been a real boost to the area. When the Brooklyn Bridge Park and Bike Path gets built, it could have been a great extension.
I feel the politicos had no idea where this area really is. They hear Red Hook and think it’s the slums. I’m all for jobs, but this area shouldn’t be industrial and manufaturing any more. The landscape has changed. The shipping should have moved to Sunset Park and be given an even longer lease. In 10 years, we’re going to be going through the same thing and hopefully then this project will get done.
bummer. who would have thunk it … Gowanus is ascendant and the ‘Hook is getting killed. what a flip-flop.