Day: June 3, 2019

A small child enjoys playing in a loading bucket at the Touch a Truck Fundraiser
Kids, Transportation

PS 295’s Annual Touch-A-Truck Fundraiser is a wheel success

Families from PS 295 and the South Slope area had the chance to explore and sit behind the wheels of more than 15 special vehicles at the school’s 9th annual Touch-A-Truck fundraiser. The vehicles lined up on 18th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues, this year included an FDNY fire truck, NYPD smart car and van, PSVAC ambulance, DOS garbage […]

Gowanus Canal

EPA and Velazquez talk Canal

Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez and the EPA provided updates regarding the Gowanus Canal cleanup at a 2019 Public Superfund Town Hall held May 29. The last town hall meeting, also hosted by the Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group (CAG), took place in Nov. 2017. Velázquez spoke first. “The Gowanus Canal is a high-profile Superfund site … because of all of you […]

Adams and NYU Langone Health -volunteers stand in front of a Langone sign. Photo by eGregorio
Sunset Park

Langone opens food pantry

The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone has debuted a new grocery store-like food pantry, called “The Table,” in Sunset Park. This comprehensive program provides a new nutritional resource by offering a diverse variety of food to local residents at no cost. “We were surprised to learn from our screening survey that one in three families in our community ran […]

Film, Red Hook News

Hook Arts Media Screens Student Films

Hook Arts Media, the nonprofit formerly known as Dance Theatre Etcetera, is working to train a new generation of filmmakers in Red Hook. On May 18, a screening of short films directed by high-schoolers and young adults took place at the organization’s Van Brunt Street loft, concluding a seven-week afterschool filmmaking program, “In Transition: Media,” led by Jordan Campbell. The […]

Arts, Film

‘Straight Out of Brooklyn,’ and back again

Filmmaker Matty Rich was a 19-year-old kid from the Red Hook Houses when Straight Out of Brooklyn won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. Without Hollywood connections or rich relatives, he’d gathered enough money from donations, investments, and maxed-out credit cards to make a feature film, for which he served as writer, director, producer, and […]