StreetLevel: Hook IKEA Opening Soon
Today Racked broke the news that the Red Hook Ikea is opening earlier than expected. I-Day is now June 18th, whereas earlier reports said the opening would be in late summer. A press release from the company says it’s still hiring and training the approximately 500 employees that will work at the 346,000-square-foot store, the…
Today Racked broke the news that the Red Hook Ikea is opening earlier than expected. I-Day is now June 18th, whereas earlier reports said the opening would be in late summer. A press release from the company says it’s still hiring and training the approximately 500 employees that will work at the 346,000-square-foot store, the first IKEA in New York City.
Red Hook Ikea Opening June 18 [Racked]
Photo by neotint.
“This project was poorly planned and will have a negative impact on a neighborhood that has gotten the short end of the stick for a long time.”
“BY THE WAY… I LIVE THERE!”
No you don’t.
You would have said so and not said “a” neighborhood you would have said my neighborhood.
“This project was poorly planned and will have a negative impact on a neighborhood that has gotten the short end of the stick for a long time.”
“BY THE WAY… I LIVE THERE!”
No you don’t.
You would have said so and not said “a” neighborhood you would have said my neighborhood.
ATTENTION 5:55…
INFRASTRUCTURE… BAD PLANNING… GET IT
repaving roads/removing cobble stones does not ready Red Hook for the traffic and congestion.
You are the same person who would think that the atlantic yards project is a good idea.
BY THE WAY… I LIVE THERE!
it’ll be hard to take the bus in or out of Red Hook when the streets are CLOGGED with cars.
If they made a bus only street, like Richards or Dwight that would be better. People in the neighborhood rely on the bus to get to their jobs. Unless IKEA is going to employ us all, we need to have consistent transportation.
So the unused wasteland that was there before was helping Red Hook more than a shot in the arm of new jobs and taxes?
Please explain.
And btw, if you’ve been over there lately you’d know that they’ve made substantial improvements in the roads to and from this store and done a GORGEOUS job landscaping what was a pretty ugly parcel of land before this.
It’s called…making the most of the situation. Red Hook, as someone already said has been cut off from the rest of the borough. Unless you’d like to singlehandedly remove the Gowanus Expressway, then how about you embrace one of the few good things to happen in Red Hook lately.
And YOU are the person who used the word “rustic.” To describe a neighborhood you go to what…once a month to buy your groceries?
Please.
5:28… get over the ‘rustic’ term
The fact is the infrastructure is not ready for what is coming. No matter what your view is of what the ‘industrial borough’ of brooklyn should be. This project was poorly planned and will have a negative impact on a neighborhood that has gotten the short end of the stick for a long time.
Take the bus.
You know…like you’d do to go to the Ikea in New Jersey anyway.
500 new jobs in Brooklyn and droves of Manhattanites discovering Brooklyn..what a TRAVESTY!!!!!
The traffic will be insane.
Rustic Charm that is Red Hook? We are in the largest metropolis in the country!
Go to Hastings on Hudson if you want real rustic charm.
You are looking in the WRONG place for it in this one industrial borough of 2.5 million people dude.