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Celebratory event for DOT bus plan the highlight of CB6 monthly meeting, but with a few questions

May 11, 2026 No Comments

At April’s general meeting, board members raised several concerns about the Flatbush Avenue Bus Priority Plan, which includes new center-running bus lanes, boarding islands and new parking and loading changes. The plan aims to speed up bus service along Flatbush Avenue, with the second phase currently in construction between State Street and Grand Army Plaza. Some of the qualms were

First-ever Gowanus health survey launched to give community a voice

May 10, 2026 No Comments

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

Jay McKnight remembered forever at the corner of Lorraine and Columbia

May 10, 2026 2 Comments

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,

Remembering a Red Hook legend – Pete Morales

May 10, 2026 1 Comment

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

Column from the Publisher: Some things on my mind

May 8, 2026 1 Comment

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

OP-ED: Tenants should not have to trade their rights, stability, or community to get safe living conditions

May 8, 2026 No Comments

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

Q&A with DEC’s Andrew Guglielmi about Public Place

May 11, 2026

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is making progress at Public Place. At a March 12 public meeting of the Gowanus Oversight Task Force (GOTF), Andrew Guglielmi, director of the division of environmental remediation at the DEC, announced several new developments in the remediation of the former Citizens manufactured gas plant site, which someday will house the

A new Star-Revue feature

May 10, 2026

Open for Business Court Street Journal joins the Star-Revue to share the monthly stories behind West Brooklyn’s evolving neighborhoods. 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 with it a fresh crop of

People of Red Hook—April 2026

April 20, 2026

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

Modern Insights: Chet Explains the Battle of Brooklyn

April 13, 2026

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

Walking with coffee, by R.J. Cirillo

April 9, 2026

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

Wednesdays in Red Hook… with Evan Yee

April 7, 2026

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

The Star-Revue Media Organization Wins Statewide Awards

May 11, 2026

The Star-Revue is a member of the New York State Press Association, a trade organization for community newspapers that was founded in 1853. Every year they run a Better Newspaper Contest, and over the years we have frequently won awards. Between the two papers we publish – we took five awards (below) This year we won two in Brooklyn —

Endless Waiting for “The Endless Garment”

April 6, 2026

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

Classic Simone

March 19, 2026

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

MUSIC: Wiggly Air, by Kurt

March 19, 2026

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 brings back Experimental Art

March 11, 2026

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

MUSIC: Wiggly Air by Kurt Gottschalk

February 20, 2026

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