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Red Hook We love Red Hook! and plan to participate in its revitalization in many ways. Red Hook is now a destination neighborhood for weekenders. However, it still lacks many year round attractions. PortSide NewYork aims to provide those, aboard the tanker Mary A. Whalen, with our own waterfront interpretive center, water-themed events, and a maritime trail that will guide visitors through local history and the growing list of activities, places to shop, dine or have a drink. 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 do programming that highlights it. Red Hook cultural calendar May created by PortSide NewYork
other Red Hook Features
"Taco Soccer" - in the park on Bay Street - great soccer plus a foodie fave, the Latin American food vendors, (Note links to each vendor at right of that page.) The scene provides cheap, savory eats, background music and the authentic ambiance of Latin America's blue-tarped street markets. porkchop-express profiles each vendor. Mexican baseball league plays at Columbia Street ballfield near the grain terminal. More latin food there...
Red Hook Movies in the Parks free, cancelled in event of rainSundays at Sunny's readings 1st Sunday of the month, coordinated by author Gabriel Cohen Dance Theatre Etc Site-specific dance and events, art as civic engagement Off the Hook Plays by local teens, arts as empowerment BWAC (Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition) non-profit art group hosts shows on the Beard Street Pier at foot of Van Brunt
Kentler International Drawing Space small gallery with quality shows, and our oldest--established 1990. Diesel Gallery (no website) at 242 Van Brunt Street. Open limited hours and days. B61
Productions - web zine named after the bus
that connects Red Hook & Williamsburg
Maritime Activity Several maritime firms have located here in the past 15 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 Why
is the waterfront so decrepit? The photo below shows current identifiers on a historic photo of Red Hook at a peak period of economic activity. Sadly, many of these piers were removed during the years of Red Hook's economic collapse. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) regulations generally prohibit the reconstruction of piers once they are 50% gone, even if the piers have existed for decades or centuries. As a result of Red Hook's dark years, we've lost much of our waterfront infrastructure, and therefore many options for future waterfront activity. Many waterfront stakeholders in this city—from private homeowners and park planners to large industrial marine operators—have been trying to get the DEC to reconsider their pier permit policies. PortSide NewYork has testified before the New York City Council Waterfronts Committee about these policies. Read our testimony.
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