Red Hook sugar factory: more demolition

The New York Post today does one of those Red Hook rising stories sure to be in vogue again this summer. It includes this graf:

Developer Joe Sitt, who owns the former Revere Sugar Factory next to IKEA, has been trying to convince the city for a few years to rezone the waterfront so he could fill his 6-acre site with apartments and retail stores.

Here’s how it looked in December 2007, and here's how it looked earlier this month, on May 10:




And here's how it looks this morning, with more bulldozers carting off the remains of one of the last two old buildings.




While I’m on matters Red Hook, Annabelle’s (Neil “La Bouillabaisse” Ganic’s new restaurant at the old Lillie’s) on May 30the will host the Bendy Pastorius Group on its stage. (No time is listed on the flyer.)

And the gateway to Red Hook is about to get spruced up. That fenced-in vacant lot at the corner of Van Brunt and President – next to the Mother Cabrini Park/kids’ playground – is going to turn into an honest to goodness grassy park. The word from my hairdresser (how’s that for a source!) is that the new park has been designed by the same woman who had that super great pasture (with cow’s projected on the wall at night) in the Art Lot on Sackett and Columbia a couple summers ago. (Sorry, my archives have apparently been eaten, so no link to the cows.)

Labels: brooklyn, nyc, pictures, red hook

- posted by Amy @ 5/28/2008 11:34:00 AM