Red Hook
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Red Hook
At a pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn, sits a 600-foot container ship brimming with 36 million pounds of Ivory Coast cocoa bound for chocolate factories in Pennsylvania and points west. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the Red Hook piers, refuses to rent an empty warehouse to American Stevedoring, a shipping company that built a thriving business over the last 10 years on piers that once employed thousands but then stood vacant for decades.