Everybody Loves Red Hook. Or So They Say.

"One doesn’t accidentally end up in Red Hook. It’s not a neighborhood you pass through on your way somewhere else. Unless you take a wrong turn coming out of the tunnel from Manhattan, it’s not a place you are likely to stumble across. It’s a destination. A choice. Or sometimes a fate, depending on where in the neighborhood you call home.Despite its proximity to Manhattan, Red Hook — a Brooklyn enclave that juts into Upper New York Bay where it connects with the East River, right across the water from Wall Street — can feel like an industrial seaside town that time forgot. The weather is different. There is salt in the air. The storms are stronger, the rain heavier, the winter harsher. ..."

NY Times: Everybody Loves Red Hook. Or So They Say.

2016 May: GOWANUS! Brooklyn’s Troubled Waters , 2017 October: On the Hook, 2021 June: Gowanus Canal 

Vacant Lot with Lady Liberty, 2004