459 Van Brunt St. is a rare availability with immense potential for an incoming business with a multifaceted operation; Located on Red Hook’s main commercial strip, 459 Van Brunt St. is adjacent to both Ample Hills Creamery and an incoming bourbon distillery. In these units, businesses can manufacture their goods for wholesale distribution and also provide tastings and offer their products directly to consumers. Across the street is Fairway Market, a notoriously busy supermarket bringing in an ever-increasing amount of visitors and daily shoppers. Brooklyn Crab and Hometown Bar-B-Que are a few steps away, frequently drawing crowds for their food and drink especially during warmer weather. Often exaggerated as a significant issue, transportation to and from Red Hook is easier than you’d think. Your business’ employees have many options whether it be to come to work via NYC Ferry, bus, biking down the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, or by car. The subway isn’t the best way to travel to Red Hook, although it is within walking distance. On the other hand, in terms of distribution of product 459 Van Brunt St. is close to the BQE, Battery Tunnel, and other major NYC thoroughfares, a business can quickly receive and distribute goods daily, via a 16' high, 10' wide street-level loading bay which opens directly to Van Brunt St. Jeremiah P. Robinson and William Beard completed the Beard and Robinson Stores in 1872 during a surge in dockside warehousing after the Civil War. Today these former warehouses, also known as “stores,” are bustling with manufacturing, retail, and creative businesses taking full advantage of the property’s historical value and inherent qualities supporting merchants of all types.
