Red Hook, in Brooklyn, New York, is the apotheosis of urban landscape -- raw, rust and romance. 

 

It delivers American industrial history on every sidewalk corner.  Streetscapes are lined with ruinous and rehabilitated structures, populated by weathered and youthful adventurers.  Ancient brick waterside warehouses stand with heavy metal shutters drawn open to expose the multinational confluence of coffee importers, furniture artisans, sculptors and all form of urban vitality -- surrounded by lapping water and open sky.

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Lady Liberty stands guard over a history of immigrants, staring directly at Redhook.  We stand in respectful silence on the waterfront: She watches Us, and We return Her favor.  The sun brings bright light to Her steely eyes each dawn, and then sets in an explosion of color behind her resolute silhouette each eve.