Man on the Street: How're You Feeling About IKEA?
As the under-construction IKEA looms ever larger over the Red Hook waterfront, we asked a few folks how they’re feeling about the store opening in the neighborhood. “Anything different is going to be good for the neighborhood. It’s a small community and you usually need to go out of it to get stuff. So any…
As the under-construction IKEA looms ever larger over the Red Hook waterfront, we asked a few folks how they’re feeling about the store opening in the neighborhood.
“Anything different is going to be good for the neighborhood. It’s a small community and you usually need to go out of it to get stuff. So any time things come to us, like Fine Fare or Fairway, it’s great.” Annmarie; has lived in Red Hook for 10 years
“It’s going to be crazy from a congestion point of view. I used to go to the IKEA on Long Island, and out there they’re equipped for all the traffic going in. But I just don’t see where the traffic arteries are going to come from here.” Jerry; has had a business in neighborhood for 15 years
“I think it’s sad but inevitable. I’m from England so I’m not really privy to the history of gentrification or development here, but it’s sad to me to go and see the blue and yellow where the sugar factory used to be.” Jenny; has lived in Red Hook for 3 years
“It’s going to be a terrific help for this neighborhood. Anyone who’s against the IKEA hasn’t been here long enough to remember the bad old days.” Marty; has lived in the neighborhood for 42 years
Someone needs to tell the Limey Brit cunt Jenny that she only has to look into the mirror to understand why the Ikea has followed her and the other yuppie transplants into northwest Brooklyn. Duh, Jenny. Guessing you didn’t arrive here from Cambridge…
all of this nonsense aside..
Ikea will be good to Red Hook, it will spur the need for real public transportation to the land to the West of the BQE. A trolly from Ikea to Fairway to Brooklyn Bridge should be invested in. The fact is there is gold on the waterfront and everyone knows it. In 20 years the entire area to Atlantic Ave will look radically different. Views like these are cheap and when someone ever figures out a way to link the nabe with Gov Island.
The area from the Grain Terminal to Fairway are going to be big box.
Traffic will suck, but the thing is moaning here won’t help. The city need make Ikea deliver on every promise. and fine. That is the biggest issue in this city, every plan is just brushed aside and promises are forgotten because its already done.
Traffic Lights Traffic cops etc. and money for improved streets, these are all on the table and must happen.
and if we could get builders besides pizza men to build buildings maybe there might a few less eyesores and actual places to live. If you put jobs in the nabe maybe people will have jobs…
anyway. I bought a sofa from Macy’s and what a piece of crap that was.
Shirley got served.
Hey 10:34, that’s about as much creativity as I would expect from a kid from Fairfield County with a Pratt degree wedged up his ass. Park Slop? Volvo?
Your twitness oozes out of every pore, you hypocritical poseur of a limp-dicked shitstain. To paraphrase my good friend Ice Cube, “I drive a bucket.” And I moved to Brooklyn twenty years ago, right around the time your MILF was carting you off to your Cos Cob Pre K class. I ain’t rich, I like cheap Ikea shit and I laugh every time a moron like you so much as TRIES to put someone down. You’re an amateur, Shirley.
“For budget situations, kids rooms, or pretty good style at a low price, Ikea is great. It is what it is, not something that should be compared to pieces in the D&D Building.”
I thnk that was my original point, Mr. Obvious.
this will be the healthiest, affordable food Red Hook has ever seen
i’m being totally serious
12:46 PM
I think you and your ilk in Red Hook have lost. Moreover, the battle you waged was never about improving quality life for the major of RH resident. It was always about increasing property values and preserving a quasi-suburban lifestyle (read: easy parking and empty streets) for a very small minority of hipsters and bo-bos living in “the back.” Until I see you volunteering at PS 27 or PS 15 so kids can friggin learn and get real jobs, don’t pretend you are anything but a NIMBY.
Have one more bottle beer at Sonny’s and call it day.
How clueless are some of you people? Ikea furniture is well-designed and inexpensive. If you expect it to become a family heirloom, or even compare it to fine furniture, you’re a dumbass.
For budget situations, kids rooms, or pretty good style at a low price, Ikea is great. It is what it is, not something that should be compared to pieces in the D&D Building.
A cottage industry of drivers will emerge at Ikea, just like they did at Lowe’s. I bought stuff there and paid five bucks to some guy with a van to get it home. Voila, problem solved.