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Red Hook

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  • People walk down Van Brunt Street in Red Hook. (Apr. 20, 2013)
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • People play basketball in Coffey Park in Red Hook. (Apr. 20, 2013)
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Local businesses in Red Hook struggled after the surge caused by Superstorm Sandy caused damage. Metal and Thread, which sold works by local artisans, closed shop in August 2013 citing hardship caused by the storm. (Apr. 20, 2013)
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Jane Buck poses for a photo inside her Red Hook store Foxy and Winston. (Apr. 20, 2013)
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Kevin's is a seafood restaurant in Red Hook. (Apr. 20, 2013)
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • A man rides a bike past a mural painted for Widow Jane Whiskey, a local distillery, on Conover Street in Red Hook. (Apr. 20, 2013)
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • A man walks a dog down Van Brunt Street in Red Hook. (Apr. 20, 2013)
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote

In Red Hook, isolated from the rest of the borough by geography and a roaring highway, the pace is slow, the feel is much more small-town than big city, more like a New England fishing village than a New York neighborhood.

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