Red Hook
With a business in Red Hook, you’ll want security that compliments your unique neighborhood. That’s why City Gates specializes in the best security options for your business, wherever it is.
Security options include:
- roll up doors
- roll up gates
- store front doors
- security gates
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Red Hook is part of South Brooklyn. It is a peninsula between Buttermilk Channel, Gowanus Bay and Gowanus Canal at the southern edge of Downtown Brooklyn. Red Hook is also the only part of New York City that has a frontal view of the Statue of Liberty (which faces east to France).
The area of Red Hook was named after the red clay soil and “hook” like point going into the East River. Settled in 1636 by Dutch settlers who originally named the area Roode Hoek, “hoek” being Dutch for point or corner. The Rapelje clan first lived in the settled Red Hook, whose descendants trace back to Sarah Rapelje—the first European child born in the New World.
In the 1990s, Red Hook was named one of the worst neighborhoods in America, with crime activity high and the sale and use of crack-cocaine common amongst its residents. By 2008, the eclectic mix of artists that moved to the neighborhood coining the “Residustrial” term given to the neighborhood.
How things have changed. New York Magazine recently named Red Hook one of the top ten neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Rejuvenation of artists, bars and restaurants brought a new kind of life to the neighborhood like building the IKEA store. This brought people from Manhattan and Staten Island by water taxi and bus to this isolated neighborhood and building up industry. Lots of Red Hook residents, however, were unhappy with the IKEA addition, as it built its parking lot on a working dry dock site, drew up asbestos and demolished Civil War era buildings.
Excellent events like the Red Hook River festival is a lively way to spend a sunny afternoon in the south neighborhood, the bars and notable restaurants including Fairway, The Good Fork and Baked pastries. A new cruise ship dock is bringing more tourists and industry to the neighborhood and visitors can appreciate their neighborhood’s rich history at the Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge. Not to mention, the Red Hook Recreation Area has one of the cleanest public pools in Brooklyn.
