Red Hook, BK's gritty, industrial shangri-la (cut off to the world thanks to the BQE), has been one of the hottest new gentrification projects for this hot-spot borough. Yale grad students in their last year of architectural studies have proposed 10 ways to revitalize the waterfront gem of a neighborhood. With the administration's hodge- podge plans already in the works, a 52,000 square-foot Fairway grocery store, and a reserved 22-acre site for NYC's newest IKEA, the students' utopian visions are about 3 years too late. The works are still being exhibited, critiqued and appreciated at The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. Had there been this sort of enthusiasm at the dawn of Red Hook's revamp, there very well could have been a thoughtful, beautiful, and organized project en route. Either way, public-housing locals will be pushed way inland, artists will be priced out, and Red Hook will officially become "unboring."
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