Celebrating Community
During the summer at the Red Hook library young kids get the chance to improve on their reading skills in an interactive and fun way in a group setting. Team up to Read is happening this summer at the Red Hook Library for the first time and is a free program designed to enhance comprehension and fluency in the reading […]
The Red Hook Recreation Center will be organizing a back to school party and parents and children are invited. The back to school party will take place on Thursday, August 15, from 11:30 am until 5:00 pm at Coffey Park (85 Richards Street). Community members will be able to enjoy the annual basketball tournament, carnival games, field day activities and […]
The enormity of unreleased material Prince left behind him is the stuff of legend and the issues around making it available are complicated to say the least—from questions of ownership to the fact that Prince himself (as he made clear during his life) didn’t want his unfinished or abandoned projects made public. Even so, the late master’s heirs and his […]
A new school building is about to open in Gowanus, and District 15 is figuring out how best to make use of it. PS 32 (317 Hoyt St.) will have 436 new seats, early childhood and special education classrooms, a rooftop playground, and a new cafeteria and library come September 2020. The goal is to reduce overcrowding and waitlists at […]
Last month in Albany, Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa announced that, in the fall, she would assemble a commission to evaluate the possibility of dropping the Regents Examinations as a graduation requirement for high schoolers in New York State. New York remains one of 12 states that require students in public high schools to pass standardized exit exams […]
New York’s liberal values are a particular point of pride for her residents (as they should be); “liberal” is part of the city’s character. For most of the country and arguably much of the world, New York City is the place to be your fantasy self, or true self… maybe. Most people (transplant and not) meld their identities to the […]
George Westinghouse Career & Technical Educational High School students were among other tri-state area students to go-kart race against Formula E’s Geox Dragon team last month. They travelled to the RPM Speedway in Jersey City, New Jersey, on July 11 for an opportunity to meet the drivers and see Formula E technology firsthand. José María López and Max Gunther, the […]
A bright new venue has blessed the shores of Brooklyn this summer. The Sultan Room, (associated with The Turk’s Inn) is the newest exploration in creative venues to open in Bushwick. The multi-room space features takeaway doner kebab, a sit-down restaurant (The Turk’s Inn), and a beautiful music room, The Sultan Room. It’s impeccably thought-out, well-designed for both sit-down shows […]
Bang! – The Unstoppable Force Meets the Immovable Object From Oil City Confidential I’m listening to the latest Wilko Johnson record called Blow Your Mind. A few years before that, I listened a lot to his previous album Going Back Home, a joint venture with Roger Daltrey, The Who singer. And way before that, I listened to his various Wilko […]
For the Star-Revue’s August issue, I wrote a feature about Revel, the moped-sharing app whose Vespa-style scooters have overtaken parts of Brooklyn and Queens. It wasn’t technically an opinion piece, but because most of Revel’s other media coverage had taken the form of first-person essays by intrepid reporters who, having tried out the product, had intercut regurgitated press-release info with […]