Reply With Quotewhere is the shuttle at borough hall? i tried to look online but it just says borough hall station, which is very vague. anyone know the cross streets?
Looking across Beard Street in Red Hook from Annabelle's bar and restaurant to the Ikea store, which opened on Wednesday. Ikea is the latest sign of change in the Brooklyn neighborhood, which for decades a working-class area that depended on the shipping industry and which declined in the 1950s and '60s as container ports opened in New Jersey.
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where is the shuttle at borough hall? i tried to look online but it just says borough hall station, which is very vague. anyone know the cross streets?
It is on Joralemon Street across the street from the Brooklyn Municipal Building on the non Cadman Plaza side of Borough Hall, closer to Court Street.Originally Posted by philvia
Look for the standard bus stop sign which says something like IKEA on it. It is where the bus departs and arrives from.
This is the subway entrance it is near (sorry for the ancient photo of it, but it was the only one I could find)
I hate corporatization of any historic area like Red Hook. But Even though that yellow and blue box isnt the easiest thing to avoid grumbling about in terms of uncontextualism the collateral waterfront park that was included is brilliant. One of the most remarkable things that they incorporated into the park was to preserve the cranes on train tracks (along other machinery as well) that were used for ship building and illuminate them at night. Along the waterfront esplanade there are little synopses explaining what each machinery was and how it was used in ship building. Excellent job by Ikea!
I'd give the Ikea a B or B-
The Red Hook ferry and Fairway are A++
thanks i went the other night at 8:30 lol... i thought ikea was really nice... i didn't get a chance to check out the park because it was late and had to catch the last bus back.
Ikea cutting out shuttle service
Ikea cutting out shuttle service
BY ERIN DURKIN and JOTHAM SEDERSTROM
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Wednesday, September 24th 2008, 8:32 PM
This free ride just got shorter.
The hours for Ikea's free shuttle bus and water taxi will be reduced because of a drop in customers, said officials for the Swedish home furnishing giant.
Beginning Oct. 1, the buses and boats will cruise between downtown Brooklyn, Park Slope and Ikea later in the day and less frequently, officials said.
"After Labor Day, it [use of the service] kind of tapered off in the morning," said spokesman Joseph Roth.
"We're trying to make sure the service can be provided when needed, but we may find the winter is different than fall so we could adjust it again."
The service, which began when Ikea opened in June, has drawn gaggles of commuters eager to take advantage of a free ride - many with no intention of visiting the store.
Roth insisted the service cuts were not intended to reduce the riders who don't shop at Ikea, but he said fewer people were using the buses in the morning ever since the summer ended and school started.
He said weekend schedules for both the bus and water taxis would remain the same.
Countless commuters have taken advantage of the posh, coach-style shuttle buses since Ikea's opening. Each bus is equipped with footrests, reading lights and music.
Some riders bemoaned the shorter bus schedules, which would clip the present operating schedule three hours. They now run from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. but under the curtailed schedule will run from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The bus will run every 30 minutes instead of every 15 minutes.
The water taxi, which ran from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., will operate between 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. after Oct. 1 - with the boat running every 40 minutes instead of every 20 minutes.
The slashed hours didn't go over well with commuters or shoppers.
"I [am] ...angry ... they cut the hours for the bus," said Nicky Jackson, 20, who uses the Ikea service to commute from her Red Hook home.
"It's way better than the city bus."
For Marquice Jenkins, the abbreviated bus schedule isn't just an inconvenience - it's a threat to his punctuality.
"You'll probably be late to wherever you have to go," said Jenkins, 20, a student who lives in Red Hook and rides the bus twice a week.
"It's free, so you can't really complain."
Ikea shoppers weren't too happy either.
"That's a hardship," said Lillian Massed, 64, a medical biller from Cobble Hill.
"Most people want to go [shopping] in the morning ... If they stop this in the morning I wouldn't come here in the winter."
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I am glad that the reduced schedule hasn't started yet, since I have to go to Red Hook tomorrow to pick up some key lime pies.
I'll probably have lunch at Ikea and pick up some of the Swedish mustard I like, too.
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