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	Red Hook. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Red Hook, section of SW Brooklyn borough, N.Y. city, SE N.Y., bounded on NE by Gowanus Expressway, on S by Gowanus Bay, on W by Upper N.Y. Bay, and on NW by Buttermilk Channel bet.
		Red Hook Houses, built in 1936 for the families of dockworkers, was one of N.Y. city’s 1st immense housing projects.
		Red Hook has lagged well behind the gentrification of brownstones that hasoccurred in surrounding neighborhoods.
	www.bartleby.com /69/71/R01471.html (363 words)

	Encyclopedia: Brooklyn
		Brooklyn, the 'Borough of Homes', can be understood as a collection of neighborhoods, many historically descended from the old towns and villages of Dutch times.
		The Brooklyn Community Board 17 is a local governement unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of East Flatbush, Remsen Village, Farragut, Rugby, Erasmus and Ditmas Village, in the borough of Brooklyn.
		Brooklyn's most beloved and cherished institution had left, and the move is cited by some historians as one of the catalysts for the decline of Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brooklyn (10164 words)

	Red Hook, Brooklyn -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Red Hook is a neighborhood of the Borough of (Click link for more info and facts about Brooklyn, New York) Brooklyn, New York.
		It is named for the red clay soil and the point of land projecting into the (A tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn) East River.
		The village was settled by the Dutch colonists of (A settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York) New Amsterdam in 1636, and named Roode Hoek.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/re/red_hook,_brooklyn.htm (217 words)

	Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, NY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, NY The Dutch established the village of Red Hook (Roode Hoek) in 1636.
		Red Hook was one of the earliest areas in Brooklyn to be settled.
		The area was named for its red clay soil and the hook shape of its peninsular corner of Brooklyn that projects into the East River.
	www.waterfrontmuseum.org /redhook.htm (170 words)

	RedHooky 1.2: Welcome to Red Hook
		I've only been a Red Hook resident for a little while - a couple of months, but there seems to be so much going on that it might be worth trying to keep track of it all.
		Red Hook was the site of Fort Defiance, which in 1776, fired on the armada of British Admiral Howe, driving the armada back and forcing Howe to abandon his efforts to land his forces further up river.
		Red Hook in Brooklyn was an Island ie.g, was not part of Long Island until 'land fill' bridged the two...
	redhooky.blogspot.com /2004/12/welcome-to-red-hook.html (808 words)

	Rezoning Red Hook
		Today, instead of the elegant mixed-use developments that have been proposed over the years by planners and architects, Red Hook's waterfront is littered with the corpses of failed government projects, such as the Port Authority's infamous Fishport from the late 1980s.
		Red Hook is bounded on the northeast by the entrance to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Gowanus Expressway.
		The Bloomberg administration's admirable proposals for rezoning the Brooklyn waterfront to the north-Williamsburg-Greenpoint-should be extended south to Red Hook.
	www.manhattan-institute.org /email/crd_newsletter03-04.html (1391 words)

	NYLPI \| Red Hook
		NYLPI worked with them to build Red Hookâs first interracial coalition of public housing leaders, clergy, businesses and homeowners, which defeated the Cityâs proposal â“ marking the first time the Cityâs Fair Share policy was invoked, and the first time Red Hook activists defeated an environmentally unjust application.
		In 1992, NYLPI suggested that Red Hook residents utilize the recently-adopted 197-A rules to develop a long-term, proactive plan for the future growth and development of Red Hook.
		Although the Red Hook Court involved some resident participation, the Tenants Association were concerned that the social services offered by the Court would not be available to residents.
	www.nylpi.org /area_4_history_redhook.html (1016 words)

	Wired New York Forum - View Single Post - Red Hook, Brooklyn
		The view of downtown Manhattan from Beard Street Pier in Red Hook in March of 2002.
		The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to returning trolleys to the streets of Brooklyn, NY.
		The BHRA museum and trolley barn is located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on the historic Beard Street Piers (circa 1870).
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showpost.php?p=541&postcount=1 (118 words)

	Article \| Red Hook's Red Light
		RED Hook, Brooklyn, could easily be named the poster child for New York neighborhoods damaged by misguided government programs, wanton subsidies and destructive zoning.
		The beauty of the plan is that it would maintain Red Hook's working waterfront with a maritime use that is actually in economic demand.
		Brooklyn judge Yvonne Lewis agreed, issuing a temporary restraining order in late November and another in December, halting all construction work on the conversion.
	www.manhattan-institute.org /html/_nypost-red_hook.htm (727 words)

	New York City - Brooklyn news / Staten Island news
		For Tisch, Red Hook on Brooklyn's waterfront is an oasis where he can practice a centuries-old art of etching and engraving glass that has been passed down in his family for generations.
		The Gowanus Expressway and the entrance to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel separate Red Hook from the rest of Brooklyn, contributing the enclave's isolation.
		And then there are the Red Hook Houses, the big public housing project closer to the tunnel where the majority of Red Hook's residents live.
	www.nynewsday.com /news/local/brooklyn/nyc-redhookstory,0,6332212.story (769 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Red Hook, Brooklyn
		Red Hook became an important shipping center in the mid 1800s with the opening of the Atlantic Basin, a wharf with warehouses used largely for the storage of grain.
		Dailey, who remains a Red Hook resident, remembers when the neighborhood began its downward spiral as shipyards, including Todd Shipyards where her father worked for 27 years, began closing.
		According to the Encyclopedia of New York City, Red Hook's decline in the late 1950s and early 1960s was linked in part to the demise of so-called break-bulk shipping, when goods were packed in boxes and longshoremen physically unloaded them from ships.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=2938 (5479 words)

	Reentry National Outreach Campaign
		The Red Hook court is at the center of a legal revolution—the community justice movement.
		RED HOOK JUSTICE's film crew was allowed exclusive access at the court for nearly two years, capturing vérité scenes of intake interviews in the Center's holding cells, court proceedings, community meetings, and other day-to-day workings of the Justice Center.
		When the Red Hook court opened, it was the first and most ambitious of its kind—today there are nearly three dozen courts like it opening around the United States.
	reentrymediaoutreach.org /redhook.htm (243 words)

	Ikea And Red Hook's Racial Divide (Gotham Gazette. June, 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dailey was among scores of Red Hook residents who attended a recent meeting of Community Board Six in Brooklyn to support the proposed building of a 350,000 square foot Ikea superstore on the Red Hook waterfront.
		The longstanding divide that Judith Dailey alludes to is between residents of Red Hook Houses, a public housing project where about 70 percent of the neighborhood population lives, and homeowners in "The Back." But this division is more than just about turf.
		The majority of people in Red Hook Houses are people of color, and the most vocal residents of "The Back" seem to be white.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/landuse/20040615/12/1008 (1585 words)

	Real State Red Hook Brooklyn - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The South Brooklyn Empire Zone, consisting of the neighborhoods of Red Hook, Gowanus and...
		Profiles an innovative court in a Brooklyn neighborhood plagued by poverty and crime that is at the center of a legal revolution - the community justice movement.
		Brooklyn Brownstones Real Estate, brooklyn new york real estate, brooklyn commercial real estate, real estate brooklyn ny, real estate in brooklyn new york, red hook...
	brooklyn.fmqg.com /index.php?k=real-state-red-hook-brooklyn (1039 words)

	New York City Diary
		The pie was the ostensible reason for our day trip to Red Hook today (Sunday), but in general Jenn and I were both antsy and needed to get out of the house and have a new experience somewhere.
		Red Hook is a very interesting New York neighborhood and one I like a lot.
		Red Hook has amazing views, not only of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty, but all across New York Harbor to New Jersey, Staten Island, and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.
	newyorkcitydiary.blogspot.com (8322 words)

	Red Hook Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 2000, an experimental court opened its doors in Red Hook, Brooklyn-a neighborhood plagued by a cycle of unemployment, poverty and crime.
		RED HOOK JUSTICE takes an in-depth look at the defendants and staff who are part of this experiment.
		RED HOOK JUSTICE focuses on the dramatic stories of three Red Hook defendants and a handful of staffers at the Center.
	www.frif.com /new2004/hook.html (1057 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Red Hook Brooklyn - Which Development Do You Like Better? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Red Hook is scheduled to get an IKEA, but recently a village proposal by a developer has emerged which would be a multi-use development.
		Saying that she "would be a fool" to assert that all of the jobs will go to Red Hook residents, Pauline Blake, a member of Community Board 6, said that there was value in training people so that they would then have the ability and self-esteem to apply for other jobs.
		Most Red Hook residents welcomed the prospect of Ikea bringing hundreds of jobs to a once lively but today largely barren waterfront district of empty streets and warehouses.
	skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=100191 (2856 words)

	WNYC - News - Condos Grow in Red Hook?
		Russo is the President of the Red Hook chamber of commerce.
		Hammerman: And in the Red Hook 197a plan it was very clearly stated: this section of Red Hook should be preserved for manufacturing uses, largely to help with the eroding job base that we’ve seen in manufacturing in general and in Red Hook specifically.
		But the Red Hook Chamber of Commerce sued, saying the decision was “arbitrary and capricious.” In December of 2004, a judge said there was enough evidence to put construction on hold.
	www.wnyc.org /news/articles/43575 (1515 words)

	Big Cities Big Boxes: MCG: "Why Red Hook Ikea Project Should be Rejected"
		Red Hook, Brooklyn, is a peninsula reaching into New York Harbor, with spectacular views of the Statue of Liberty and lower Manhattan.
		It will raise real estate values in Red Hook from the modest level for manufacturing, with its high economic multiple, to the level for big retail, which adds little to the local economy, thus increasing demand for re-zoning from manufacturing to retail and driving out manufacturers who lease their space, plus manufacturing jobs.
		A diverse group of Brooklyn residents and businesses seeking to promote the waterfront has filed suit in New York Supreme Court to stop Scandinavian retailer Ikea from building its proposed 22-acre tax-subsidized suburban-style superstore project on the waterfront in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
	www.bigcitiesbigboxes.com /mcg_why_red_hook_ikea_project_should_be_rejected (2204 words)

	Red Hook - New York City Neighborhood - NYC
		Red Hook is definitely a neighborhood in flux: The longtime home of Brooklyn longshoremen and other blue-collars now sees its share of BMWs parked in front of refurbished townhouses.
		Hamilton Avenue and the Gowanus Expressway separate the Red Hook peninsula from the rest of Brooklyn.
		There's no subway into Red Hook, but the New York Water Taxi provides commuter service.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /realestate/articles/neighborhoods/redhook.htm (462 words)

	Press Release Archives #157 CITY PURCHASES NEW CONTAINER CRANES FOR BROOKLYN'S RED HOOK CONTAINER TERMINAL
		The purchase of these cranes is the first of several initiatives scheduled for the Red Hook Terminal as part of Mayor Giuliani's Strategic Plan for the Redevelopment of the Port of New York.
		The Red Hook Container Terminal is the City's second largest terminal, employing approximately 500 on-site people, up from approximately 200 in 1993.
		The estimated impact of Red Hook's total volume is approximately 1,100 on and off-site jobs, $36 million in wages and $4.2 million in annual City tax revenues.
	www.nyc.gov /html/om/html/2000a/pr157-00.html (640 words)

	South Brooklyn Profiles: Red Hook Fishermen
		Yet after years of remaining empty, the Civil War-era warehouses of today's Red Hook are filled with manufacturers and entrepreneurs who are poised to gentrify the area that was once an active port.
		Arthur Wright, who regularly fishes off the three year-old pier, pithily assesses Red Hook's angling appeal: "Some fish for sport, others fish for support." While no one at the pier seems to be making this their living, aficionados marvel at the richness of the waters just east of Ellis Island.
		Wright, along with his fishing mate Julius Yates, lives in the nearby Red Hook projects, where Yates keeps frozen a striped bass he caught the season before.
	www.southbrooklynprofiles.org /redhookfishermen.htm (466 words)

	Red Hook News
		Some 100 people lined the four corners in the center of Rhinebeck last night as the group Red Hook Peace and Justice held a candle light vigil to mark the 2,000 th casualty of the war in Iraq.
		Poughkeepsie Journal The 50 pounds of marijuana nabbed by police during a Red Hook traffic stop this summer is stronger and more expensive than the kind of weed typically found in the Hudson Valley.
		Investigators were still looking for a man who rents a Brooklyn apartment where the police found the bodies of two women on Friday morning, the authorities said yesterday.
	www.topix.net /city/red-hook-ny (1098 words)

	A Building Grows In Red Hook, Brooklyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		South Brooklyn Community Academy Moves Into Good Shepherd Services' New Red Hook Center NEW YORK, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Seventy-five South Brooklyn Community Academy (SBCA) high school students began taking classes this week in the Good Shepherd Services Center, Good Shepherd Services' new $8 million, 32,000- square-foot center on Conover Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
		Good Shepherd's new Red Hook center provides increased capacity for a growing number of alternative high school students, and features a modern science lab, library, gymnasium, and digitally enhanced modern classrooms.
		About Good Shepherd's New Red Hook Center Good Shepherd's new center in Red Hook, the completion of which will be officially recognized in May with a public ceremony, was constructed over a two-year period.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-15-2001/0001448278&EDATE= (610 words)

	Lillie's Bar info Red Hook, Brooklyn (or Lily's Bar or Lilly's Bar) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lillie's Bar in Red Hook is now open Wednesday thru Sunday.
		West of Lillie's Bar in Red Hook, Brooklyn, is a weed-tattered lot, and south of that is the Erie Basin, slated to become the world’s largest Ikea.
		46 Beard St. (the corner of Dwight St. and Beard St.) in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn.
	www.whiskyrebellion.com /lillies.html (263 words)

	Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, NY
		Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, NY Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, NY Welcome to the Waterfront Museum.
		It is the committee's goal to prevent Red Hook's functional graving dock from destruction.
		IKEA's current plan is to fill the valuable maritime resource that was used as recently as February 2005 with construction debris and create a parking lot.
	www.waterfrontmuseum.org (375 words)

	Red Hook Tenants Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		PICCED has been assisting the residents of the Red Hook Tenants Association to conduct a comprehensive planning effort in its South Brooklyn community.
		The association is based in one of the largest concentrations of public housing in the country.
		Several months ago, the plan was finalized and adopted by the residents of Red Hook and the local Community Board.
	www.pratt.edu /picced/techast/redhook.htm (213 words)

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