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News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy As diners close across New York, a new diner focused on serving the community is rising in Red Hook. Val’s, a bar and diner, will open this July in the old Fort Defiance and Pitt’s
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy May’s Full Board meeting welcomed a plethora of neighborhood updates, new board members, a street safety analysis and the district’s very own app. District Manager Michael Racioppo shared a district app he built, where users
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Torrential rain struck New York City the evening of Wednesday, May 20, causing flooding in all five boroughs. The worst hit were Brooklyn and Queens, according to Floodnet NYC, a monitoring program created in collaboration
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Red Hook TV watchers might have noticed a familiar face recently. The person above, identified only as “Miss Dawn,” was featured in a commercial for the group “The Five Borough Jobs Campaign,” speaking against passage
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy “Land is power” was the refrain at Jalopy Tavern on Wednesday, May 13. Despite the gray, dreary weather, the energy was upbeat as roughly 35 New Yorkers met to watch a screening of Rabble Rousers
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy We asked Ramona, who leads the advocacy group SaveSection9.org what she thought of the Mayor’s plan, and this is what she sent us. Resident leadership across the city has made it clear that we expect
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy The NBA postseason has been a surreal experience as a Knicks fan, and as someone who played basketball with Julian and Justin Champagnie in Carroll Park and the P.S. 58 school yard. I missed out
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy It’s just past 8 a.m. on a rainy Thursday morning in Sunset Park. City Council Member Alexa Avilés finds herself in a position not unfamiliar to most New Yorkers: rushing out the door, preparing for
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Wally Bazemore has been invested in the Red Hook community for his whole life. He has been a big part of Red Hook Groups Against Garbage Sites (GAGS), worked with local youth, helped get PAVE
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Reporter Asar John walks the East side of Red Hook, highlighting interactions with people working, living and playing in that special part of town. This is his story for a day in May….. A recent
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy I pretty much learned the local newspaper business at the Brooklyn Phoenix, a neighborhood paper run by Michael Armstrong from the early 70’s to the late 90’s. One of the good friends that I made
I saw the Butthole Surfers live once in Austin, Texas. Not too far from the University of Texas where I was a student. I walked to the show with my friend on a blistering hot summer day. We stopped en-route at the gas station on The Drag to get “the juice.” The juice was a Big Gulp – an obscene
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy The writer Harlan Ellison had a long, wide-ranging career that spanned science fiction short stories (such as “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman”), television scripts (like the Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Shortly after author Sally Frances moved into Carroll Gardens in the early 1990s, a neighbor told her about overhearing a fight between an adult brother and sister in the backyard of their shared brownstone next-door.
News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On a rainy weekday evening in Carroll Park, activity and mounting anticipation. Volunteers drag chairs into place across the plaza stones. Actors, not yet in costume, leap about on stage, practicing their swordfight choreographies. A
In his latest exhibition at The Wall Gallery, The Ultimate Radical Painting, Brooklyn-based artist Anders Knutsson invites viewers into a fascinating but unknown art-territory where the painting serves as a bridge between the rational mind and the spiritual. Spanning four decades of work from 1986 to 2026, the exhibition is a masterclass in how you can experience the dual character
Review of “Livonia Chow Mein,” by Abigail Savitch-Lew Is it true what people say—you can’t go home again? My partner once remarked, “The Germany I left isn’t the same Germany I’d return to.” I’ve never left New York, and I feel just as disoriented. Abigail Savitch-Lew’s debut, “Livonia Chow Mein,” is a novel about belonging. Set in Brownsville, Brooklyn, it
Miles Davis is more than a musician, he’s an icon. The aspects of that shifted through the years and eras of his life, and that continues in his afterlife—his centennial is May 26. The fashion figure has vanished from popular culture since the end of The Gap’s mid-1990s campaign showing Miles (and Jack Kerouac, Steve McQueen, and others) wearing khakis.
