Celebrating Community
It is apparent, even at a distance, that among the primary concerns of most New York City voters are safety from crime and the need for the police department to insure increased public accountability for it’s actions. While these issues resonate in Red Hook, the community also faces at least two major environmental challenges in the immediate future. Currently a […]
This year has demanded that all New York City families and students do so many things differently—they’ve had to think differently, learn differently, and connect differently with teachers, peers, and the whole school community. At the Department of Education, we know we also have to think differently as we look towards the summer. For the first time ever, we are […]
The People’s Candidate Forum covered issues including jobs, climate and justice, while allowing the District 38 City Council candidates to state their cases for being elected. The candidates included Alexa Aviles, Rodrigo Camarena, Erik Frankel, Jacqueline Painter and Cesar Zuniga. Though there were a lot of important questions asked, many of them resulted in similar answers from all of the […]
After growing up in East New York and having lots of experience fighting for marginalized communities, Alexa Aviles feels she is the right candidate to be the next councilperson for District 38. Aviles talked about how there are all kinds of programs and resources across Brooklyn and the city that residents might not know about. “Residents need to have access […]
A bald eagle in the (now former) UPS gravel pit next to Valentino Pier. The eagle looked a little rough around the edges. Hope it is ok. Though you might appreciate the sighting photos. If it turns out they are helpful to you, I can send the high res versions.
One can debate the justice, or the lack thereof, of the rapid fade of Mayoral candidate Scott Stringer, based upon allegations that, 20 years ago, he engaged in acts which, if proven, would constitute the crime of “forcible touching,” a Class-A misdemeanor, which would carry a penalty of up to a year in prison, if the statute of limitations hadn’t […]
The good news is, it looks like summertime, which is not just a box on the calendar but a whole experience here in New York. It can seem like a struggle, the heat and humidity and waiting for the subway in a stuffy station. But after last summer’s unease, dread, anger, frustration, outraged energy—because Black Lives Matter and if you […]
Marc Ribot is sick of everyone. Or so it seems. Or artists and activists, anyway. And politicians. And cowboys, although they might be a metaphor for one or more of those other categories. Hope—Ribot’s second release with his quick-quitted trio Ceramic Dog in nine months (out June 25 on Northern Spy) and fifth overall—seems to hold little hope, at least […]
Review of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick Review by Michael Quinn Bronx-born Vivian Gornick cut her teeth as a journalist working as a reporter for Village Voice in the early ’70s. An urgent need to “put the reader behind my eyes—see the scene as I had seen it, feel […]