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 WILL DESTROY THE RUSTIC CHARM THAT IS RED HOOK. I second ‘5:07’ sentiments. Let IKEA burn like the abandoned cars of Beard St. It still blows my mind how this has happened. Anyone who has ever ridden a bike, driven a car around or walked the streets of Red Hook knows the infrastructure is not ready for what is coming.
This will indeed be the highest grossing Ikea in the United States.
I can GUARANTEE you that!
F*ck all the naysayers. They clearly don’t get laid enough that they’d complain about something opening in a neighborhood they never set foot in anyway.
5:07:
Really? Worse than the Gowanus Expressway that cut the neighborhood off from the rest of South Brooklyn? Worse than the loss of (almost) all shipping from the Red Hook Waterfront? Worse than the project being erected there? Worse than the school Principal who was gunned down there in broad daylight?
Yeah, a business that employs hundreds & pays taxes stinks.
Nobody seems to get that 3:53 was displaying a bit of satire. Is there no humor on stoner?
I see this ikea as a perfect place to take my children on a dreary, freezing winter day. they have great play areas and fabulous meatballs!
Cheap, good-looking wooden garden furniture is also an advantage. I wonder it we’ll be able to pick up kitchen cabinets there or still have to drive to NJ for that…
I live in Red Hook – and this is by the far the worst thing to happen our neighborhood yet! i hope it burns to the ground!
4:47 – don’t be an ass, what do you want – every retail store to be a Woolworth Building? – those retailers designed their stores to suit Brooklyn’s urban streetscape – thats what you asked for and those are 2 examples.
It has been done (not saying Ikea should or shouldnt have) and will be done again and you should praise the Cos that do it, instead of being a bitter critic like all the other bland cookie cutter people who do the same regarding everything in Brownstone Brooklyn.
4:36. I hardly consider those ~redesigns~. They are still generic, cookie cutter and bland copies of the Commerce Banks and Eckerds all over.
4:27 – here’s 2 = Commerce Bank – 5th Avenue – Eckerd Drugs Smith St
As for 3:53’s wish that people wont shop there – dream on – say hello to the #1 Ikea in the Western Hemisphere (even though I predict the employees will be on par with 99% of all Brooklyn retail employees = horrible – no matter what the training)