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Cleaning the Canal — More Risk to Red Hook
Improving Connectivity: New Bike Lanes, said to come this summer
“Cycling from Park Slope to the Columbia Street Waterfront District is about to get a whole lot easier.
Community Board 6 voted unanimously to approve a city plan to roll out a path for two-wheelers on Sackett Street that would connect to an existing Park Slope route and cross the Gowanus Canal on Union Street — giving bikers a safer ride from the brownstone enclave to Van Brunt Street.”
DOT Proposal
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/2013-03-bike-route-union-sackett-bk-cb-6.pdf
Related Articles
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/36/20/dtg_sackettbikelane_2013_05_17_bk.html
What form of transit is right for Red Hook?
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New York looking to the Netherlands for flooding solutions
In the Netherlands polders and dikes and the reshaping of the land can be looked to as a good lesson in water management.
In order for something like this to occur difficult political decisions need to be made, but we see it as the only option in order to cope with rising sea level and storm surge. Protecting the neighborhood and the city should not be treated as a burden, but “as an economic and architectural opportunity.”
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Tour of Recovering Local Businesses
After natural disasters there is a flurry of media coverage and assistance that flood into an affected area. But what happens when the headlines fade as time passes?
Peter Day takes a walk down Van Brunt Street of Red Hook Brooklyn to find out how businesses in this one area are trying to rebuild themselves after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.
Landform History Exposed
Neighborhood businesses are getting back on their feet.
Many of the local businesses are struggling to bounce back from Sandy, some viewing it as a catalyst for change in Red Hook.
Resilient Red Hook 