May 27, 2008
Red Hook's Demise, Development Documented
D.W. Young's A Hole in a Fence, the documentary which focuses on Red Hook, has been floating around for a while and is coming back to town this week -- just before the new IKEA opens its doors in the 'nabe. In 46 minutes Young explores the hurdles the neighborhood is facing and "the complicated issues of development, class and identity facing the city's most populous borough." Young urban farmers and graffiti writers are followed as they watch their landscape disappear alongside their elder counterparts.
The film will screen on Thursday May 29th aboard the Waterfront Museum barge on Pier 44 in Red Hook, followed by a panel discussion on the future of the New York waterfront (watch the enlarged trailer here).
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i went dancing there friday night & holy crap is it hard to get to. the bus in front of the smith & 9th st stop only runs every 20 minutes! i walked most of the way past the projects & warehouses.
Hipsters! Colonize the Upper East Side. It'll be only a few years before developers start knocking down Park Avenue so they can slap up high rise boutique hotels for the Euros and Petrobrats. How about a condo projectile vomiting out of the Whitney museum? Time for all you Sarabeth muffin heads to get the fuck out of town. Ten or twenty million in the bank? Puh-lease, that is so pre-peak oil. Get the fuck out of town!
In thinking about that last, most jejeune comment, a thought occurs: where have all the kidnappers gone?
What's a Petrobrat?