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Red Hook, Brooklyn Red Hook is a rapidly evolving, mixed-use neighborhood. We have killer waterfront views, a lot of working waterfront which provides ship and tug viewing opportunities, a burgeoning artist colony, and quality artisanal food and craft emporia along the main drag Van Brunt Street. We have the freshest lobsters for sale in NYC and an urban farm! Two large shopping magnets, Fairway and IKEA, now define the southern rim of the peninsula. We are a destination for many reasons. PortSide loves Red Hook and participates in its revitalization in many ways. PortSide NewYork aims to provide year round attractions, aboard the tanker Mary A. Whalen, with our own waterfront exhibit center, water-themed events, and our WaterStories trail that will guide visitors through local history and the growing list of activities, places to shop, dine or have a drink. Red Hook's BlueSpace, with its varied working waterfront, is one of the defining features of our neighborhood; and we continually seek ways to turn it into an educational and cultural feature and an involved neighbor. We also promote the events of other Red Hook organizations and retail venues. Getting Here:
What you get: The Green: Red Hook has 70 acres of city park space, 3 garden centers, and publicly-accessible waterfront esplanades. Red Hook Parks has one of the city's largest outdoor pools (occasionally enjoyed by local ducks), ball fields, leafy Coffey Park, the waterfront gem Louis Valentino Memorial Pier with one of the city's few designated boat launches for hand-powered boats (4th photo from top at left). "Taco Soccer" - in the park on Bay Street - great soccer plus a foodie fave, the Latin American food vendors. porkchop-express profiles each vendor. Mexican baseball league plays at Columbia Street ball field near the grain terminal. More latin food there... Red Hook's non-profits do much for the community and create many reasons to visit:
Most of our bars also host bands, readings and special events. Find them on the Visitor Guide to Red Hook produced by PortSide.
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News Box: Summer 2010 event photos Visitor Guide to Red Hook created by PortSide NewYork. On The Waterfront Red Hook has fantastic harbor views. Valentino Park & Pier, a city-designated hand-powered boat launch area. Permit required from Parks Department to launch The Red Hook Boaters, a PortSide partner, offer free kayaking on many weekends inside the pier head line. Historic maritime partner Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge 2 waterside gardens designed by Lynden Miller: For beach and cove views, turn right at signs for Museum Barge near south end of Conover Street; other is entered at end of Conover Street and wraps left. Fairway Cafe offers basic eats with great views of Upper Bay, Statue of Liberty and tug, barge and ship traffic. Enclosed and heated in winter. IKEA's Erie Basin Park has a large lawn, varied seating, a small fishing pier, great views of tugs and barges, preserved gantry cranes harbor seal visit Working Waterfront: Over a dozen maritime support service businesses are located inland in addition to businesses below. American Stevedoring operates the container port Gowanus Industrial Park, subleases to other vessels, planned cement port Hornbeck, tug and barge operators, at original home of the Mary Whalen, soon to be run by Vane Brothers from Baltimore. Hughes Marine, barge rental and operators of Erie Basin, home to subtenants Lomma Crane, Buchanan Marine, Bridge Construction, Sea G. Marine Repair, and others. New York Water Taxi now part of Harbor Experience LLC, excursion boat homeport Reinauer Transportation, tug and barge port and co-owners of Erie Basin with Hughes Marine Reinauer Tug Captain describes tug and barge work in Erie Basin
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