When I saw the black waves of the flood lapping at the front door of my apartment last Monday night, I knew that my restaurant, Fort Defiance, was already underwater. I live only a few blocks away from the Fort in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, and on significantly higher ground, so my hopes that Hurricane Sandy would pass us by, like so many storms before, were dashed.
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TIME MAGAZINE: Red Hook Apocalypse→
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The quirky wooden two-story storefronts of Red Hook’s Van Brunt Street are more reminiscent of a Cape Cod fishing town than the cookie-cutter architecture of the brownstone, townhouse and housing-project symmetry of the Brooklyn neighborhoods that surround it. And the area’s idiosyncratic separateness from much of New York City has long been reinforced by it’s isolation from all the arterial subways that connect Brooklyn with Manhattan and Queens.
Read MoreBLOOMBERG: Artist Dustin Yellin Sloshes Through…→
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The only works in Dustin Yellin’s Red Hook studio that survived Hurricane Sandy were massive glass blocks bound for an exhibition at Lever House on Park Avenue this spring, and they had a scum line four feet up from the ground.
Read MoreSandy Volunteer in Red Hook Shares Experience, Offers Advice→
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On Thursday, I donated supplies to Brooklyn Kitchen/ The Meat Hook, who are running materials out to the Rockaways all weekend, but on Friday, I wanted to do something a little more hands-on. I’d been following Red Hook Initiative’s Twitter and saw that they needed volunteers for cleanup and meal distribution, so I headed to their headquarters at 767 Hicks Street to sign up.Read More
CNN: Sandy's Small Biz Victims: "We Don't Want Loans!"→
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More than 100 business owners jammed into a standing-room-only meeting Thursday afternoon in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn to hear New York City officials describe the relief assistance available to entrepreneurs who saw their restaurants, stores, warehouses and other businesses devastated this week by Sandy's flooding.
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