Take the Red Hook Survey!

SBIDC, Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corp, has been working with a retail market planning firm called JGSC.  The goal is to help small businesses in Red Hook and one of the steps towards helping these businesses is to find out the consumers wants and needs for these retail markets.  Take this survey, if you haven't already, and share your opinion.  You'll help our small business owners in only a few mintues!

Vote for Red Hook!!!

Benjamin Moore is having a contest and the community with the most votes will win a make over of sorts, that is a row of properties will get spruced up through a program entitled "Main Street Matters".  Red Hook has been nominated!  You can cast a vote a day and the deadline is June 30th so start voting now!  Read more about this contest on Pardon Me For Asking.  And start voting here.

Winter Festival in Red Hook?

There was a great blog about Red Hook's small business community on Grubstreet a few days ago and while reading through the stories, mostly of community members coming together to help one another out, but also of the difficulties owners have faced and some are still facing in reopening their businesses, we couldn't help but feel heartbroken all over again.  We've written a couple of blogs about how now more than ever people should be flocking to Red Hook instead of staying distant.  In this Grubstreet blog we read something about a possible winter festival in the works for Red Hook and thought "What a great idea!".  We haven't been able to find any more info than this small mention so we assume it's in the early stage of development but we'll definitely keep you updated as we get news.  Until then please tell everyone you know, "Come out to Red Hook, go shopping, have lunch/dinner. get some drinks!!!"

Restore Red Hook Businesses.

If you are a small business owner in Red Hook then you probably know about the organization Restore Red Hook, which has gotten a lot of props by local residents and business owners.  We wanted to put the spotlight on this organization for those who have never heard of it and may want to donate.  They are dedicated entirely to getting Red Hook businesses up and running again and were written about in a Huffington Post blog to be "a fantastic resource" that's "doing great work". You can read more about them here.  In addition to this neighborhood wide campaign businesses, such as Red Hook Lobster Pund, have set up individual campaigns through Smallknot.  Check this out.