August 12, 2008
Red Hook August update: Cheyenne and full ferries
 Red Hook’s most photographed building is getting a new next door neighbor, according to the Brooklyn Paper, which reports that Manhattan’s shuttered Cheyenne Diner will soon relocate to Reed Street, map.
The new owner’s hoping for a Spring 2009 opening.
Red Hook’s already changed a lot since NewYorkology’s pre-Ikea Red Hook Guide was published earlier this summer. Here’s a roundup of news that’s hit since then:
Fancy new bar Botanica has opened on Conover Street.
Home/Made, an antiques/artisan craft shop has opened on Van Brunt.
The current BWAC art show contains a public planner’s dream model of Red Hook, stocked with stick pins, paper and other DIY items that invite the public to create their dream neighborhood — which on a recent weekend included calls for a rooftop pool (in a kid’s handwriting) as well as hotels and better transportation.
The Red Hook soccer field vendors are back for the season — same great food but now served from expensive health-code-happier trucks.
Tini wine bar was closed for an August vacation but reopens tonight at 5 p.m.
Metal & Thread remains on vacation through August.
Serious Eats sized up the $9 lobster roll at Fairway and Steve’s chocolate-dipped key lime pie on a stick.
When Anselmo’s opens on Van Brunt, it will be Brooklyn’s fourth coal-oven pizzeria, according to Slice. (They’re also opening a bakery at 204 Van Dyke Street.)
Grindhaus is aiming for an October opening, Eater reports, and it will be a “boisterous sausage parlor.”
The fabulousness of the free NY Water Taxi to Ikea didn’t last long. In July, service was cut in half back and they switched to a hand-stamping situation that gives priority to Ikea customers. Hard to complain, except this is exactly what Ikea officials swore they would not do at least until September. So the way it runs now, you may get on a boat. Or you may not, even if you’ve just shopped at Ikea. When the boat fills up, it can be 40 minutes for your next shot.
Pictures: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
August 12, 2008 3:47 PM in Architecture, Cheap Stuff, Foodology, Out of Manhattan, Shopology
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