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• [1] Dubya from Soho June 18, 2008 - 10:21AM

  Look, it happened so how can you make the most of it? These store owners are angry and from the one caller, bitter. So they have a choice, they can turn these customers away or they can embrace the new business. Will they be turning away a customer wielding an Ikea bag?

  I would bet my salary these protesters will be shopping there by years end.

  
  
• [2] Patti from Columbia & Union Streets, Brooklyn June 18, 2008 - 10:24AM

  What the CB board rep is saying about the B61 bus is questionable -

  Before the IKEA, B61 service was a joke - you're were lucky if you didn't wait 10-15 minutes for it - I've waited as long as 45 minutes for one and have walked miles because one never came.

  Does the MTA plan on adding more B61 buses to the line to accommodate residents?

  Anyone I've spoken to in my neighborhood isn't happy about the IKEA.

  
  
• [3] Robert from NYC June 18, 2008 - 10:24AM

  C'mon the only people who will really support this is those who don't live nearby but drive there to purchase stuff. I don't think you will find many in the neighborhood who wanted an huge monster like IKEA around. Brian, can you be bought off with swedish meatballs!? LOL

  
  
• [4] jor from union square June 18, 2008 - 10:24AM

  remember when the East village community was up in arms with the building of K-mart? This is no different. The protests will be fall on deaf ears, and Ikea will prevail, and this will be the start of the gentrification of Red Hook. Might as well lay down the red carpet for them yunnies and yuppies.

  
  
• [5] Patti from Columbia & Union Streets, Brooklyn June 18, 2008 - 10:25AM

  Brian, I hope you do a follow-up segment and revisit this issue.

  
  
• [6] anonymous from park slope June 18, 2008 - 10:27AM

  The link below is a transcript of an interview of DAVID CAY JOHNSON by Bill Moyers on his PBS show of 18/Jan/08. Mr. Johnson talks about the deal local governments cut w/big box retailers which sometimes includes the stores' winning the right to keep all sales tax that they collect. Do you think IKEA received a similar arrangement?

  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01182008/transcript.html

  
  
• [7] Jade from NJ June 18, 2008 - 10:28AM

  I live in Jersey City, and I looke forward to taking the ferry from NJ to Pier 11, and then the Ikea ferry. And I live closer to the Elizabeth store than to Brooklyn! I can't wait to meet up with friends from Brooklyn to explore Red Hook.

  
  
• [8] otis from EV June 18, 2008 - 10:33AM

  what is this? an infomercial for ikea? as usual, bryan blunders through an issue, feeling the necessity to mention swedish meatballs no less than 3 times while missing the bigger issue. BRYAN WE CAN TELL YOU LOVE IKEA. THE POOR DON'T GIVE A F**K ABOUT CHEAP SOFAS!

  did he just plug pearl river? hey bryan, how about a phone number for pearl river while yer at it.

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• [9] sunday from long island June 18, 2008 - 10:42AM

  well here is why i am not a fan of ikea...

  http://www.storyofstuff.com/

  
  
• [10] J. June 18, 2008 - 10:48AM

  Dear Craig Hammerman-

  "The American Community Survey lets communities see how they are changing - filling in the gaps between each 10-year census."

  
  
• [11] Charles from Park Slope June 18, 2008 - 10:56AM

  I have to agree with the negative comments above about this show, and concerning Ikea.

  First of all, this show sounded like an infomercial for Ikea, and the Board 6 representative sounded like he works for Ikea. And here in lies the problem:

  Ikea in redhook is a government facilitated corporate takeover of a neighborhood. It's the new form of corruption, where government officials make backroom deals and tax breaks for the benefit of one corporate entity or developer. Make no mistake about this, the people of Brooklyn are getting screwed, and once again, there is nothing to do about it.

  The poor are used against the rich, and the middle class loses the neighborhoods they worked and lived in for generations. Too bad we don't even have the Brian L show anymore to keep our faith ...

  Sorry Brian, but it sounds like you should have moved to Brooklyn. You are getting soft and complicit, and everyone seems to be using your reputation to their own advantage, at the expense of yours. You are giving a forum without critical analysis ... just another fluff show.

  646? Where is that, New Jersey?

  
  
• [12] Dubya from Soho June 18, 2008 - 10:57AM

  Wow Otis, angry some? You need love and a hug.

  
  
• [13] otis from EV June 18, 2008 - 11:15AM

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• [14] Al from Manhattan June 18, 2008 - 11:19AM

  Tens of thousands of truck loads of cheap particle board furniture. All that energy to make it, ship it, cart it home, and three years later, it all ends up in the trash.

  
  
• [15] hjs from 11211 June 18, 2008 - 12:36PM

  where are the craftsmen?

  
  
• [16] Joe from Clifton NJ June 24, 2008 - 09:05PM

  Craftsmen? Do you guys live in the 19th century? Today "craftsmen" get degrees from 4 year art schools and make crafts, furniture, kitchen cabinetry, metalwork and houshold items that fill the homes of millionares in Greenwich and the upper east side. They build all of that exquisite minimalist decor that go into Ian Schraeger's hotels and if you're sitting around listening to WNYC YOU PROBABLY CAN"T AFFORD THEM. Some of them probably even have workshops in Red Hook and are pissed about the traffic today. Yeah, Ikea's kind of cheap but it's fabrication methods are based on the same methods used in post war Europe housing construction. They also sell tons of decently designed non-furniture housewares. I have stuff from Ikea that I bought 15 years ago and haven't thrown out anything. Some things may seem fragile but so is my Noguchi lamp. If you visit a traditional Japaneese house, don't lean of the walls.