The first day that you can fill out the Census is on March 12. It is very important that every single person completes the Census and is counted, and it does not matter your age or living situation. From March 12 until mid-May, the census will be primarily conducted online and via phone, and all New Yorkers are very strongly […]
Day: March 12, 2020
Rotary Club event to collect 500 boxes of feminine hygiene products for homeless shelter
On March 25, the price of entry to a luxe wine and hors d’oeuvres party is… a couple of boxes of tampons or pads! Project Pad, an event hosted by the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club, will be held at The Great Room in Carroll Gardens. The purpose: to stock up the New Horizons family homeless shelter in East New York […]
Interim flood protection anticipated for summer at Atlantic Basin
Two and half years have passed since the installation on Beard Street of the first phase of Red Hook’s interim flood protection measures (IFPMs). Delays that have plagued the second phase of the project – which will address vulnerabilities in northwestern Red Hook, near Atlantic Basin – are expected to come to an end this summer. In 2017, New York […]
Red Hook educators aim for Imagine Schools funding
In December, two public schools in Red Hook, PS 676 and South Brooklyn Community High School (SBCHS), received word that they’d advanced to the second round of the Imagine Schools NYC competition. Out of 231 applicants, 91 survived the first cut. Imagine Schools NYC represents a public-private partnership between the New York City Department of Education (DOE) and two philanthropic […]
Red Hook as a font
If the spirit of Red Hook – its rugged industrial heritage and small-town warmth – were encapsulated as a typeface, what would it look like? Alexandre Noyer, a French illustrator and graphic designer, has an idea. Noyer and his girlfriend visited the neighborhood in November. “We were totally charmed by this part of Brooklyn, our walks on the street and […]
The BQX runs on astroturf
At Community Board 6 on January 30, when representatives from the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and the Department of Transportation showed up in Red Hook to discuss the planned Brooklyn-Queens Connector (BQX), so many neighborhood residents stood up to register their objections that, after a while, it seemed easier to take a poll. How many people opposed […]
A day at the farm with apexart
Red Hook may be a small seaside village in Brooklyn, but thanks to local art institutions like Pioneer Works and DE-CONSTRUKT, it’s easy to catch painters, sculptors, and writers from around the world on Van Brunt Street. Founded in 1994, apexart is a nonprofit gallery in Tribeca, but Abbie Hebein, its Director of Fellowships and Public Programs, lives in Red […]