http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/contact_sheet/33276 Red Hook is one of the oldest quarters of Brooklyn and New York City. According to the last 2010 census inhabitants were 11.319. The first settlement was in 1636, when some Dutch colonists founded the first village, Roode Hoeke, that has practically nothing to do with a “hook”, as many people may think. That is the Dutch for “red point” and it is referred to the clayey soil that used to be a good point of reference for the incoming ships at that time. In Red Hook Al Capone took his first steps as a criminal. In 1990 LIFE defined Red Hook as one of the worst quarters in the U.S.A. (“The crack capital of America”). In 1992 Patrick Daly, the Director of a school (which is nowdays entitled to him), while looking for a student that had walked away after a fight, got killed in a street gunfire among drug dealers. The reaction to this fact involved a tough police intervention, between 1993 and 2003, homicides were down 100 percent, felony assaults down 68 percent, robberies down 55 percent and rapes down 33 percent. Today the quarter lives thanks to muffled background sounds and noises; sea waves breaking on the coast, seagulls flying silently , wind stroking buildings and desert factories, some small workshops arranged in old blackened buildings, an old abandoned machines mute echo pealing… clear traces of one of the oldest principal points of access of New York City and that is nowdays becoming an epicentre for property speculations. Walking down the streets of this quarter, it is impossible not to perceive a nostalgic atmosphere, different from the luxurious and luminescent midtown’s one, where flows of people fight for a little space on a side walk and a chink on shop windows. The quarter is represented by few hubs: the sport field overtopped by the old massive Grain Terminal’s skeleton, IKEA, the only attraction for the metropolitan volk, the cosy Cathedral dedicated to Holy Mary’s Visitation, the school bus storage areas with a continual coming and going, cheap supermarkets, council houses and the portual area, where you can see the unreachable Statue of Liberty. After many years of general oblivion, it is gradually acquiring public interest for 2 main reasons. First of all, it is about to become the new “cool” area of New York, soon to be discovered by the artistic community. Secondly, on August 10 2012 “Red Hook Summer” – the new Spike Lee movie – will be out and it will be based in this very neighbourhood. http://www.lightstalkers.org en-us http://images.lightstalkers.org/avatars/42922/518437505_3002671f00_o_small.jpg http://www.lightstalkers.org/Filippo Venturi <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1325855/00a_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1325855'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1325855 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:51:07 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1325855 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1325855/00a_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1325855'>view full-size image</a> Filippo Venturi <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1325852/00a_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1325852'>view full-size image</a> http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1325852 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