Red Hook Resurrected « Just Raquel

Red Hook Resurrected

20Apr08

When I first moved to town, I had a car. This meant frequent trips to Red Hook for Fairway groceries, macaroons from Baked and other browsing on Van Brunt Street. For some reason traveling to this part of town by bus, bike or foot didn’t seem viable. Dumb dumb dumb! Today’s show stopping weather sent Mo and I that way. One of my favorite Red Hook spots is Erie Basin. I was lucky to receive a treasure from this special antique/jewelry/oddity shop during my birthday last year. During today’s visit, I learned all about jet, a material used to make jewelry during the mid 1800s. It’s fossilized coal – shiny black, light weight, and en vogue for funerals (at least in the mid 1800s).

It will be interesting to see what the new Ikea will bring to this area. I’m secretly excited to have better access to this mecca of cheap, even though I’m supposed to be grown up and way past d-i-y beds and bookshelves, both of which I could use. I think it’s opening in June.