[Photo courtesy of Brit in Brooklyn]
Red Hook has been a busy place today, with Beard Street busy with traffic and the Ikea parking lot jammed. Plus, there have been lines. Old school Eastern Europe lines reminding one of the days before the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Communism. GL Contributor and Brit in Brooklyn blogger Adrian Kinloch was on scene and shot a lot of great photos of the opening day Ikea Frenzy, a couple of which we’re featuring here.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Anonymous // Jun 18, 2008 at 3:58 pm
already saw the plastic bags blowing down Van Brunt and people speeding down van brunt trying to pass people going the speed limit. The end is here.
2 ff // Jun 19, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Hey, it’s hard to argue with those crowds.
Like Barnum said, there’s one born every minute… or rather, hordes of ’em.
3 Mare // Jun 19, 2008 at 2:00 pm
3:58 pm,
The beginning of the end of the end of what? A small bohemian hermitage surrounded by a Ringstrasse of public housing? Gosh, the 300 or so Red Hook hipsters, trustfunders and artsy-fart types have such an overinflated view of themselves!! Plus, won’t Ikea work toward your objective – more traffic on Columbia Street will keep folks from the houses out of your precious “back” and away from the pier?
4 mod squad // Jun 20, 2008 at 12:45 am
Nicely put Mare. A “Ringstrasse of public housing”. Oh the humanity!
5 Yo, Brooklyn Brand, What’s Up? - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com // Nov 3, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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