Closing Bell: Soon, A Place To Buy A Mattress in Red Hook
[nggallery id=”21634″ template=galleryview] Red Hook’s waterfront was, as usual, perfectly serene this weekend, its steady harbor hum only interupted by the occassional passing car or another group’s chatter once the distance closed to about ten feet. This is pre-IKEA mania, scheduled to afflict New Yorkers June 18 (or, for the particularly touched, 48 hours earlier)….
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Red Hook’s waterfront was, as usual, perfectly serene this weekend, its steady harbor hum only interupted by the occassional passing car or another group’s chatter once the distance closed to about ten feet. This is pre-IKEA mania, scheduled to afflict New Yorkers June 18 (or, for the particularly touched, 48 hours earlier). Still, there were already men guarding all entrances, some who proudly declared they have turned down temptation from even the most beautiful ladies offering phone numbers and best friendship in exchange for quick look inside. So, after snapping a few pictures through the fence of IKEA’s expansive but unremarkable (aside from the obvious GIANT BLUE facade) campus, we rode away down the empty street toward Fairway Market. Radio music could be heard from the old security station in front of Thor Equities’ somewhat dismantled Revere Sugar refinery, but it could have been a decoy, there wasn’t anyone in sight. Beard Street’s lonely weekends will be over once IKEA is open every day from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. Above are some images of Red Hook pre-mania. If we can squeeze in without being clawed back, we’ll have opening day comparisons.
Will IKEA Be a Traffic Nightmare for Red Hook? [Brownstoner]
Broker Dreams Of Outlet Shopping At Revere Site [Brownstoner]
Christ all mighty! Do you really think that beautiful women is going to try to flirt her way into an Ikea or that anyone for that matter gives a flying F##k what the inside of Ikea looks like. It looks exactly like every other Ikea in the f**king country. It is just that this one is about to destroy a beautiful neighborhood.
Brownstoner, are you going to continue to publicize this piece of swedish crap store every week leading to its tragic opening?
Noklissa and Brenda from Flatbush are the best writers on Brownstoner.
Oh for God’s sake 7:35. What a ridiculous thing to say.
“some of us do not wish to hear foul language”!
You sound like my 7th grade teacher.
Biff, I’m blushing. You’re too sweet. And me too on the Fairway front! Yes indeed. Have in fact filled up the trunk on more than one occasion. Oh the humanity.
Fair point 3:29, but I still can’t bite – not even a nibble. It is just wrong.
It’s like a giant Garden Gnome sticking up out of a field of purple flowers in some beautiful Monet painting.
As one resident put it, it will utterly destroy the unique, sleepy, maritime feel of the place.
Maybe we could drink a glass of bourbon and share a key lime pie, at least in spirit, in front of the “boat museum” as my son calls it one last time before the bottom falls out.
Frosted pewter? Or straight up in crystal?
noklissa some of us do not wish to hear foul language asterisked out or not
and your comments are inane, why don’t you move to canada or some other communist country like park slope
Solid jobs for residents, people coming into the neighborhood and spending money – maybe another by-product of Fairway and Ikea is that area will get the reliable public transportation it needs…
Get a room you too. Preferrably in Red Hook.
am a bit weary of Ikea!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Red hook and am still on the fence if Ikea will be bad for the nabe or actually do some good – remember a lot of Red Hook’s disenfranchised residents now have solid jobs thanks to Fairway and now Ikea – so that’s a plus! – also maybe the people coming to Ikea will head over to FAirway, Baked etc and spend money and make this little enclave a bit more profitable
A gorgeous Saturday (Or Sunday, or Monday…)
indeed my darling Nokilissa!
But we best beware of getting hit by poorly secured Idemo Black Ektorp corner sofas sliding off the roofs of cars driven in from Corona.
I have no interest whatsoever in Ikea, but must express a mea culpa re: Fairways, for I’ve broken down on occasion and made the trek to pick up certain goodies not available at Sahadi’s and a few other neighborhood favorites of mine.
Your lucky lucky husband…I truly adore everything you write, especially the uncensored posts!
I cannot believe that I was forced, several hours later, to go back and bleep (**) out the four letter word I’d used in my make-believe thought bubble in order to get my comment posted.
I think the censorship of such words is ridiculous.
It also stymies the flow.