Dead' Hook: When Gentrification Doesn't Take
New York mag has a provocative article about how Red Hook’s failed to live up to the substantial hype pegging it as Brooklyn’s next great frontier for gentrification. (Evidence of that failure, according to the article, includes the closure of the Pioneer bar, bistro 360 and the Hook, as well as the claim that real…
New York mag has a provocative article about how Red Hook’s failed to live up to the substantial hype pegging it as Brooklyn’s next great frontier for gentrification. (Evidence of that failure, according to the article, includes the closure of the Pioneer bar, bistro 360 and the Hook, as well as the claim that real estate values appear to have peaked.) Red Hook’s used as a springboard for a deeper examination of how many of us have come to assume that there’s always going to be another neighborhood ripe for transformation:
In some ways, Red Hook was a Realtor’s dream, boasting Manhattan views, a salty maritime history (working piers! Brawling sailors!), and a brochure-ready name, all of which would play perfectly on some theoretical condo prospectus. Seeking waterfront living with a dusting of urban grit? Then drop your anchor in Red Hook! More crucially, Red Hook was simply next. Because if we’ve learned anything in the last twenty years of gentrification in New York, it’s that there will always be a next.
Do you really think Red Hook’s time has come and gone or is it just taking a breather?
The Embers of Gentrification [New York]
Photo by Betty Blade
Red Hook doesn’t have a subway, but it could have had trolleys. Bob Diamond and his organization wanted to run them right into Downtown Brooklyn, but the city wouldn’t cooperate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Historic_Railway_Association
I think that red hook is doing fine it has turned around so much what do you want? Black people do not matter look at clinton hill
no subway. it is really that simple. all the water taxis in the world (at $10/pop) won’t fix that lack.
GUARANTEE!!!!!!! Not one of these pickled-minded minions would ever go into the communities that they love to lambast on-line and espouse racist/ Ignorant, and so-called class statements publicly and personally (exotic mortgage products & racism; social as well as Institutionalized is the only reason the bulk of you can compete). Noting the usual lack of grace, self-respect, integrity, perseverance, humanity, and quality character of formidable substance, associated with your kind.
Note: The communities that are continually cited as “bad, dilapidated, etc” has produced some wonderful people to add to the world/ overall society. With the later not being relegated to a particular group and includes people from communities such as projects, ghettos, Heroin/crack-addicted parents, single-parent/ no parent households etc. Values fostered in Communities where people love, respect, nurture, persevere, believe in an Higher-Power and are supportive of one-another play a significantly large role; that is why Native Americans, persons of African-descent, and others have not yet sought to retaliate against those as well as their representatives who have oppressed and fostered conditions that undermine and debilitate (poor performing schools, housing laws and services that favor the abhorrent landlord, corporate welfare/ mortgage fraud including redlining/etc, inadequate medical facilities and care, lack of police protection and surveillance, corrupt government officials such as police, governor, judges, etc).
“How could a major drug cartel operate for 50 years in Harlem and not be disbanded until Bill Clinton sets up shop there?”
THINK – 0PEN EYES AND MINDS
– Stop the Infighting
– We may have to figure out how to sow that sole sesame seed into a meal to feed a nation. (I know some have an inherent comfort zone; however think global and reflect how that impacts and who is the ultimate small fish/ Real “Minority”. – I’m also reminded of the story re: one of the earliest group of american settlers from Europe and the missing silver cup)
– Wall St/ Banks cite $100 Billion loss associated with mortgage debacle, many have “layed off” thousands – domino effect can realistically be expected. (Unless the powers that be figure to start another war or again prop up the economy on increased property values….)
Good Comment 12:50p, It rings true and correlates with a phrase pertaining to those who HAVE TO Work EVERDAY, yet think their in the class of the “Who’s Who” (particularly in NYC). Again: Exotic Mortgages, Racism and Blissful IGNORANCE. Though many of the underwriters/ brokers did practice racism when doling out many of the products (mortgages), it appears many are suffering across the board (wide spectrum of homeowners, real estate/mortgage/bank personnel, retailers, etc.)
How do you think the tenants who live at the Fairway apartments get to work everyday? The water taxi. And if the Imlay Condos had opened there would have been another water taxi stop right there. If the money was there, the transportation would have been there. I also heard that MTA may be adding a bus line that goes through the battery tunnel into Manhattan. They may do that when they close the Smith and 9th subways stop. Transportation would not have been an issue.
5:11 is 100% correct
that was make or break
absurd.
i think it’s obvious that transportation is much more a deciding factor in all this than a single building going condo.
don’t be ridiculous.
The gentrification of an entire neighborhood rested on a decision by the court of whether a building could do condo development.
the gentrification of an entire neighborhood rests on the shoulders of one single building?
sounds terrifying.
glad the “progress” has stopped then.
not a healthy way to create a community.