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Modern-day Gowanus sits on polluted land. For over a century, waste material from gas manufacturing and other industrial operations was dumped all over the watershed, where much of it remains today. Settled deep in the ground in solid or liquid form, the toxicants are less likely to pose a threat to humans, but when they vaporize into the air or
On Saturday May 9 at 2 pm there was a street co-naming on the corner of Lorraine and Columbia to celebrate Red Hook’s Jay McKnight. McKnight was a leader in the Red Hook community and a talented musician who orchestrated more than 15 concerts in Coffey Park. He performed with The Dubs, The Shells, and Little Nate & The Chrylers,
Red Hook lost an important leader in Pete Morales, who passed last month. He was the former commissioner of the Red Hook Little League, helped fight for the community, donated to children and those in need, remembered as a “great man.” “Pete and I go way back from the Latino leadership, and there were so many things that we were
People want to know I’ve been covering Red Hook since 2010 and I don’t really understand why nobody, neither community leaders from the back or front, nor elected officials, stepped up to hold a public forum about NYCHA privatization, or PACT. Our reporting indicates that many who live in Red Hook West have no idea about the consequences of what
The Trump administration is advancing proposals that would limit how long families can remain in federally subsidized housing, including Section 9 and Section 8. For public housing residents in New York City, that’s not an abstract policy debate—it’s a direct threat to housing stability. At a moment when federal support is becoming more precarious, New York City should be doubling
Newsletters from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get news from the Star-Revue throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On Nov. 20, 1939, public housing came to Red Hook. Now, some 86 years later, one of Brooklyn’s first public housing complexes is set to be turned over to private management. The Red Hook
Hi, I am Alexa Tietjen Dornagon and I am very excited to welcome you to my new space here at the Red Hook Star-Revue! Just when you think winter will never quit, spring arrives and Carroll Gardens earns its name once more. If the number of new awnings across this part of Brooklyn is any indication, the season is bringing
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get news from the Star-Revue throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy People who know their history will tell you that April 20 is the birthday of a very bad man, who I will only describe as the Number One Nazi. But coincidentally, back in the
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy I was enjoying the wonderful new Battle of Brooklyn exhibit running all year at the Center for Brooklyn History on Pierrepont Street when I heard a familiar voice behind me. “They used to call this
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS! Blood is sticky, did you know that? Have you been around blood, blood freed from its bodily vessel, little girl blood, splattered on the walls of an elementary school, bombed on the
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Welcome to ‘Wednesdays in Red Hook’, a new series that gives a close-up look into the hard work, unexpected encounters, and delightfully mundane moments that make up an average day in Red Hook. Today we’re
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On March 17, Wraptor Restaurant and Bar, located at 358 Columbia Street, hosted its second movie night. A small but enthusiastic group of customers watched Premium Rush while enjoying good food. After starting off behind
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On a cold Sunday afternoon, you go to Pioneer Works looking for The Endless Garment, a poetry book related to an exhibit at the art space. The sign out front says the space is free
There was a period around and after the development and promotion of Wynton Marsalis as a public jazz star when there seemed a coordinated campaign to add a fancy slogan to jazz. Institutions, promoters, journalists, musicians—when talking about jazz in front of an audience, they would frequently qualify the term by stating that jazz is “American’s classical music.” This always
Peace (On Earth). On Jan. 21, without advance notice, the pioneering drone/doom project Earth unleashed its latest sonic assault to streaming media. On Jan. 27, Dylan Carlson, the leader and only constant member of the band, refused to play a concert in Bologna, Italy, when he saw a Palestinian flag displayed in the venue. Let’s take these one at a
Coffey Street Studio, an art studio in an unassuming warehouse in Red Hook, is returning its artist residency program, the Coffey Street Studio Artist Initiative (CSSAI). The studio sits right next to the water and has its doors open to all who wish to learn more about what it does to help expose local performers and acts to the community
When 14th Street was Cooler. Back in the deep, dark ’90s, before the Meatpacking District was home to the Highline and the Whitney Museum and the Apple Store, West 14th Street housed one of the city’s great venues for music outside the norm, one that history seems to have left behind. The Cooler was a big, old, retrofitted, basement meat
One of the best cinema publications out there is Cashiers du Cinema. No, no – not the magazine that gave us Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, and the French New Wave. That’s Cahiers du Cinema. But the confusion is understandable, at least at a passing glance. Both Cashiers and ‘60s-era Cahiers are similar formats and designs, square-shaped with yellow-bordered covers framing
