SITE: RED HOOK - BROOKLYN

This neighborhood was chosen for its relationship to the themes that fall under "drag queen."

IDEAS OF OUTCAST: Robert Moses, with a heavy hand, and an infatuation for the automobile, ripped Red Hook from the rest of Brooklyn. What was once indistinguishable from its long lost brother/sister Brooklyn heights and Carroll Gardens, eventually became the Crack capitol of America?

TRANSFORMATION/REBIRTH: What was once "the crack capitol of america" now has a high end grocery store, ikea, and most illustrative, the REAL WORLD BROOKLYN. You know it must be safe if "the real world" is willing to move in.

COMPLEXITY/CONTRADICTION: New/Old - Huge scale shifts withing the neighborhood - Community garden across the street from the ikea. an vibrant artist community lives just a few blocks from the projects - there is a recently refurbished pool (thank you once again, robert moses.)

....and so on and so on.