Fairway Market in Red Hook has been closed since Hurricane Sandy hit four months ago. The area was one of the harder hit neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the store, which first opened in 2006, had to be completely gutted and renovated following the storm. I always love going to Fairway and have missed the experience…it never felt like a chore, more like an adventure! And it is encouraging to hear Red Hook is on its way to rebuilding what destroyed.
It was announced that a “ceremony celebrating the rebirth and return to life of the entire community” will take place on Friday March 1st at 9:30am, which marks the grand reopening of the supermarket. Those in attendance will include Marty Markowitz, Mayor Bloomberg, and Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan.
“Fairway Market is more than just a store; it is the quintessential grocery experience with something for everyone-from our foodies and artisan advocates to even Brooklyn’s own Miss America, Mallory Hagan,” said Markowitz. “Since Hurricane Sandy, Fairway’s absence in Red Hook left Brooklynites with an emptiness in their daily routines-and their refrigerators. I can personally attest that no week was quite the same without my wife and I taking our ritual trip to Fairway; of course Jamie would head straight to the fruit and vegetables aisle and I dash straight for the prepared foods counter and the great variety of smoked salmon a.k.a. lox.”
Markowitz also expressed gratitude to the entire Red Hook community for its fortitude, declaring, “Bravo to Fairway’s first family, the Glickbergs, and to Tom Hoover-a man who I proudly ‘look up’ to-as well as Mayor Bloomberg, the Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation and Executive Director David Meade, and to the entire Red Hook community for their amazing strength in the aftermath of Sandy’s devastation. This reopening trumpets that like Brooklyn itself, Red Hook and Fairway are resilient, putting the ‘super’ in supermarket and leading the way as we rebuild, rebound and recover. The only thing that we still need from Fairway, now that they’ve reopened in Red Hook, is to stock our shelves with even more stores in Brooklyn USA.”