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Red Hook We love Red Hook! and participate in its revitalization in many ways. Red Hook is now a destination neighborhood. However, it still lacks many year round attractions. PortSide NewYork aims to provide those, 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. An interim version of WaterStories is our Visitor Guide to Red Hook launched 9/09. We also promote the Red Hook events of other organizations and retail venues. We believe our working waterfront is one of the main attractions and defining features of our neighborhood, and we continually seek ways to turn it into and educational and cultural feature and an involved neighbor. cruise terminal info Brooklyn Cruise Terminal website and ship schedule getting here: B61 bus, B77 bus, IKEA ferry (no longer free to non-IKEA shoppers) weekday and weekend, free IKEA shuttle buses
other Red Hook Features
Red Hook has killer harbor views, 70 acres of city park space, 3 garden centers and and
two waterside gardens designed by Lyndon Miller, noted landscape designer.
There are public access esplanades that are not public parks. As to the city parks: 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 (right). See Red Hook Boaters for free kayaking there. "Taco Soccer" - in the park on Bay Street - great soccer plus a foodie fave, the Latin American food vendors. porkchop-express profiles each vendor; note links to each vendor at right of that page. The open air market scene has been changed from that webpage due to Parks Department regulations, the vendors now operate out of food vendor trucks. 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. Maritime Activity Several maritime firms have located here in the past 20 years. There are over a dozen maritime support service businesses inland in addition to the marine businesses on the waterfront listed below.
and we have historic
maritime in the Waterfront Museum
and Showboat Barge Recreational Boating Valentino Park is a city-designated hand-powered boat launch area. A permit from the Parks Department is required. The Red Hook Boaters, a PortSide partner, offer free kayaking on many weekends inside the pierhead line. |
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Red
Hook is a rapidly reviving, mixed-use neighborhood. There is a large working
waterfront, a burgeoning artist colony, and quality artisanal food and
craft emporia along our main drag Van Brunt Street. We even 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.
