Red Hook waterfront with Statue of Liberty distant
— — the working pier with the statue in the long view.
Not only on a wall.
“A working-waterfront neighborhood at the southwest tip of Brooklyn, cobblestoned, low-rise, and slow. From the end of Louis Valentino Jr. Pier the Statue of Liberty stands clear across the Upper Bay, about a mile and a half off, with Lower Manhattan to the right and the Verrazzano to the left. People come for the bakery, the Civil War warehouses on Van Brunt Street, and the long water view that the rest of Brooklyn doesn't have. — from the studio
Red Hook waterfront with Statue of Liberty distant, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Red Hook is a peninsula on the southwest corner of Brooklyn, set apart from the rest of the borough by the Gowanus Expressway and the lack of subway service. The neighborhood was one of the busiest break-bulk shipping ports in the world through the mid-twentieth century, and the bones of that trade are still here: Civil War-era brick warehouses, cobbled streets along Van Brunt and Beard, and active container piers at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal. Louis Valentino Jr. Pier opened in 1998 and gives the neighborhood its open harbor view.
From the end of Valentino Pier the Statue of Liberty stands about a mile and a half across the Upper Bay, the closest unobstructed land view of the statue from any city park outside Liberty State Park in New Jersey. Lower Manhattan rises to the north, Governors Island sits just to the east, and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge spans the harbor mouth to the south. Tugs and container ships work the channel all day. The NYC Ferry's South Brooklyn route stops at the Atlantic Basin a few blocks north.
Red Hook is reached by the B61 bus, the NYC Ferry to the Atlantic Basin, or a 15-minute walk from the Smith-9th Streets F/G subway. There is no subway in the neighborhood itself. Van Brunt Street holds most of the food: Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pie at the foot of the pier, Hometown Bar-B-Que, and the Red Hook Lobster Pound. The pier is free and open during park hours. Sunset over the harbor is the picture most visitors come for.