Ok… wow. If ever there were a romantic opportunity to show your love on Valentine’s Day, this is it! Take your sweetie down into Red Hook for… Noooooo, not the amazing and romantic wonderful meal ate The Good Fork… but a meal that’s as processed as the pressed-board wood you find in one of their […]

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Have you taken the New York Water Taxi ferry to or from Ikea in Red Hook? Well, now you can, via the magic of this YouTube vid sent to us by a GL Reader. Happy sailing.

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[Image courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] The Ikea in Red Hook was one of those projects that created strong opinions on both sides: among those who said it would destroy the neighborhood and those who thought the benefits would outweigh the problems. Two months later, the neighborhood isn’t gridlocked, but the store has definitely […]

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Ikea and NY Water Taxi reacted quickly today to reports from Red Hook that its policy was changing regarding the free Water Taxi service from Manhattan to Red Hook. Via a Water Taxi spokesperson came this statement: “there is no charge for the IKEA Water Taxi – it is still FREE to EVERYONE. The demand […]

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Just last week, there was a story about how people were using the Ikea Shuttles and to a lesser extent the Ikea Water Taxi service to get to and from Red Hook. At the time, Ikea spokesperson Joe Roth said that Ikea was “thrilled that we are providing free transit options for the people of […]

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[Photo courtesy of vaduzuvunt/GL Flick Pool] It looks like the Red Hook Ikea Annex, (aka the sign painted on the vacant building a block from the Ikea on Van Dyke Street), has gained an added element. About a year and a half ago, the same art appeared in a bunch of places on the fence […]

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I”The residents of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens are going nuts about the Ikea buses that have decided against HIcks and gone with Clinton as a route. The buses, every hour on the hour, seem to be trying to beat out Bonneville Salt Flats-type speed records, and [Tuesday] morning, due to construction, there was even […]

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[Photo courtesy of s5r5h/flickr] Do read the words that accompany this photo, which is titled “Ikea Madness”: ok, so i HAD to go to the opening of the brooklyn ikea. got there on the b61, my usual bus home. this time i stayed on to the end. it dropped you off right at the front […]

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Here’s a short vid shot yesterday on the esplanade behind the new Ikea in Red Hook.

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“First came the elation – then the frustration. Customers love the Ikea furniture, especially the low prices. But lo the assembly! The Daily News hooked up with college professor Yvonne Mullings as she took her brand-new $69.99 Malm- a white three-drawer bedroom chest – flattened down tight into a bulky brown box, into her Brownsville, […]

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This is Beard & Dwight Street, where we’ve been photographing the street from the same vantage point, using the Stop sign as a kind of marker. The photo on the left was shot in April, 2006. The photo on the right is now. The crane in the right hand photo, by the way, was relocated […]

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[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 […]

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[Photo courtesy of Racked] The deed is done. The sawdust has already been cleaned from the ceremonial log sawing and the first customers have already been inside the Red Hook Ikea for two hours. The new era on Beard Street has begun. Racked has full coverage of the morning and dozens of photos, much of […]

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By now, there are probably about seven people in the entire city that don’t know that Ikea is opening in Red Hook, and five of them are under three years of age. Ikea’s advertising and PR campaign has been so complete–and every media outlet and blog has been so happy to help cover the pending […]

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Red Hook’s Beard Street may be one of the most changed streets in all of Brooklyn over the last few years, although Kent Avenue in Williamsburg could start to give it a run for its money. The transformation of Beard Street from a long stretch featuring a closed shipyard and sugar refinery to a big […]

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It is zero hour. At this very moment, the first customers are streaming through the doors of the new Red Hook in Ikea, the first of hundreds of thousands of people that will come to this formerly remote and industrial corner of Brooklyn over the new few months to shop for Billy bookcases and Ektorp […]

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[Photo courtesy of Racked] Our friends at Racked are live on the scene down on Beard Street and filing reports from the Ikea opening. The latest dispatch says about 500 people are in line an that the scene is “a cross between a political rally, a big-top circus and some sort of fanatical cult gathering.”

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The reports being filed from the Ikea tent line by Adam Robb are alternately funny and weird, with the blow-by-blow of what it’s been like to camp out at the Red Hook Ikea (and await a free Ektorp sofa) being particularly compelling. Check out all the glorious coverage by clicking here.–Racked

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“It’s been well documented that Ikea — with its endless living rooms and curtain solutions — has been known to spark screaming matches between normally mild-mannered couples.” So, here are some tips from a clinical psychologist about how to avoid a divorce when looking at the Billy bookcases.–Brooklyn Based

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Do take a few minutes to watch this if you want to chuckle as the “protesters” against the Red Hook Ikea are picked off one by one.

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Oh no. We were led to understand that the “log sawing” that will replace a ribbon cutting at the Red Hook Ikea tomorrow is a Swedish tradition. Now, we learn that it’s not so, per Raquel Ortigueira, who handles cultural and public affairs for the Swedish Consulate General. “This isn’t a Swedish thing, it’s an […]

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In honor of all the media hype and hoopla surrounding the second coming opening of Ikea in Red Hook, we’re offering up a few views of the store from the lot next door. The property, which has a colorful history, including residents living there and being one of the last homes of Red Hook’s wild […]

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Beard Street was already buzzing more than usual this weekend as some sort of pre-opening shopping event was going on at the Red Hook Ikea. The Ikea Shuttle was already running and a steady stream of cars was coming down Beard Street and going to the parking lot. Beard Street, at times, still had that […]

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When we were picturing the Ikea Shuttle, we were thinking of mini-bus type vehicles. The buses now cruising the streets of Park Slope, Gowanus and Red Hook, however, are a little bigger than that. Here’s one of the shuttles outside of Ikea on Saturday parked outside of “Ikea Plaza,” aka Beard Street. Today’s times has […]

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Here’s a selection of photos from the Red Hook Ikea preview yesterday of both the interior of the store, the exterior and the waterfront esplanade.

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