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What hath Fairway and Ikea wrought? A Red Hooker expounds: "And, now, we have the threat that it’s going to get much, much worse unless the dying real estate market kills some of these projects. On Mr. Sitt’s Revere property, we have the threat of a BJ’s coming in, unless they decided to make it a multiplex mall, And, there could be a Bed Bath and Beyond on the other side of Ikea. Talk about turning one of our city’s most unique neighborhoods into a cheap and crappy version of New Jersey." [Gowanus Lounge]