Reinvention in Red Hook

One by one, the relics of Red Hook’s rough past are being recycled as, along the waterfront, crooked storefronts give way to chic boutiques and sailors’ saloons are reborn as bistros. A month ago, when Beatrice Giovanniello and Brad Acopulos opened the gates to Atlantis, a vintage furniture and housewares boutique on Van Brunt Street, they added another hotspot to the neighborhood’s lengthening list. Brimming with sleek handmade tables made from salvaged local wood and metal, curved chairs upholstered in atomic 1950s fabrics, and antique industrial cabinets burnished to a smooth, pearly patina, Atlantis mines Red Hook’s past and transforms it into something artful and new.