Red Hook: It's Not Just for Crackheads Anymore

Like many Brooklynites, we’ve got to juggle a few jobs to keep up with our living expenses. When we’re not working on the Brooklyn Record, we’re often writing for other publications about food or music, or in this case, reasons to visit Red Hook. We were thrilled when the CHOW.com, the West Coast-based food website, asked us to do a travel feature on Red Hook, but in order to write about the neighborhood for non-Brooklyn audience, we had to change our perspective. After all, we’ve seen so many changes in the past few years that to us, Red Hook seems downright bustling. However, when our pals visited from California, our cheerful descriptions of the neighborhood really didn’t fly. They saw it as “pretty much a lot of rotting piers and projects,” but walking around the neighborhood — so close, yet so far away, from the hustle of Manhattan — was a highlight of their trip. Of course, we can imagine that non-locals might be slightly unsettled by the funny poster we saw in Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pies, but its slogan rings true: “Red Hook: It’s not just for crackheads anymore.”
From Scarface to Key Lime Pie [CHOW]