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The long battle of the Red Hook piers was actually over a while ago, after many twists and turns, but the formal triumph of the stevedores over waterfront cafes, hotels, a cruise port and other "attractions" came yesterday. American Stevedoring,which operates the Red Hook Container Port, signed a new 10-year lease on its waterfront property, formally ending the Bloomberg Administration's Red Hook Piers Remake Dream. The plan died an agonizingly slow death as individual pieces were nibbled away rather than receiving one short, sharp shock. First, the housing went. Then, the cruise terminal was chewed off. And, finally, the entire thing fell apart. The stevedores ultimately hung remarkably tough, mustering a long list of political supporters who threw wrench after wrench in the works. If there's any consolation for the planner of the remade waterfront, the plan might have collapsed of its own volition at the point, anyway.
· Lease Ends Uncertainty for Red Hook Cargo Docks [NYT]
· City OKs Red Hook port pact [NYDN]

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The city's longstanding on-again-off-again plan to give the Red Hook Container Port the boot and redevelop the waterfront with housing, hotels, cafes and the like, is finished. The end did not come in one, big dramatic death blow. Instead, the plan was nibbled to death by ducks over a long period of time, with individual parts like the cruise port expansion being bitten off before the whole thing was devoured. Now, the Daily News reports an impending deal on a new ten-year lease for the port's operator, American Stevedoring. The deal "officially puts an end" to plans for upscaling the Red Hook waterfront in a non-industrial way. In the end, it turned out the stevedores definitely had more staying power than the latte drinkers, if not the hoped-for beer garden. 2018 is looking good for reviving the plans, however.
· Red Hook port deal shipshape [NYDN]
· Stevedores Holding Off Lattes on the Red Hook Waterfront? [Curbed]

The big city plan to redo the Red Hook waterfront with hotels, condos and cafes? The time may be drawing near to stick a fork in it. The plan to dislodge the Red Hook port has been dying a slow twisting-in-the-wind kind of death with pieces like the cruise port expansion being twisted away and all kinds of political artillery being summoned to shoot holes in it. The latest is a request by 20 elected officials to the Port Authority to extend the port operator's lease for ten years. The struggle is likely to continue, though, as the Port Authority and the city's Economic Development Corp. say they're still considering their options. Also, those crafty stevedores are said to owe $1 million in back rent, which they deny.
· Politicians fight to save last Brooklyn working port [NYDN]
· Brooklyn: Officials Back Cargo Operator [NYT]
· Grand Plan for Red Hook All but Dead [Sun]