The biggest news story in town today is that Ikea has opened up a big new store in Brooklyn, specifically on the waterfront of the alterna-neighborhood Red Hook. People have literally been camping outside of it for days awaiting the glorious moment that they could buy really really cheep home furnishings.
I guess I don't see what the big deal is but then I've never been to an Ikea so perhaps it has a magic that I'm unaware of. While I question whether or not some of our valuable waterfront should go to a big store like this, if people want to shop there and it'll create jobs and generate visitors and economic activity in one of the more sparsely populated sections of the city, who am I to say it's wrong?
If you want to learn more about the store, obviously you should check out its website.
Here's one very cool thing about this new Ikea: not only does it serve food -- it'll become the place to get Swedish meatballs in this town, I kid you not -- Ikea is providing a ferry service, totally free of charge, that'll take shoppers, potential shoppers, or people who just want to check out Red Hook across the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn. (Considering what a bitch transportation in this town is, this is truly a miracle from the Heavens.) The ferry (actually a Water Taxi) leaves from Pier 11 just south of Wall Street every 40 minutes between 10 AM and 10 PM. This'll certainly open up this part of Brooklyn that gets no subway service (thank you Robert Moses). Learn more about this great new service here.
I guess I don't see what the big deal is but then I've never been to an Ikea so perhaps it has a magic that I'm unaware of. While I question whether or not some of our valuable waterfront should go to a big store like this, if people want to shop there and it'll create jobs and generate visitors and economic activity in one of the more sparsely populated sections of the city, who am I to say it's wrong?
If you want to learn more about the store, obviously you should check out its website.
Here's one very cool thing about this new Ikea: not only does it serve food -- it'll become the place to get Swedish meatballs in this town, I kid you not -- Ikea is providing a ferry service, totally free of charge, that'll take shoppers, potential shoppers, or people who just want to check out Red Hook across the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn. (Considering what a bitch transportation in this town is, this is truly a miracle from the Heavens.) The ferry (actually a Water Taxi) leaves from Pier 11 just south of Wall Street every 40 minutes between 10 AM and 10 PM. This'll certainly open up this part of Brooklyn that gets no subway service (thank you Robert Moses). Learn more about this great new service here.
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