Celebrating Community
I still remember being intrigued by a news report the week before Sandy saying that the late season hurricane could also incorporate a snowstorm. They called it a Frankenstorm, and coming the week before Halloween, it was mildly intriguing. But like with most impending weather disasters, you kind of go on with your normal life at the same time paying […]
This month marks 10 years since Hurricane Sandy devastated Red Hook. Initially, I couldn’t remember all of the details but I did remember that school was canceled for a week. That says a lot because we were lucky to get one day off, even for blizzards. Fortunately, I’ve been able to look through all of the 2012 editions of the […]
This June, Liz Galvin and Jaimie Walker partnered to open up Basin Gallery & Studios at 344 Van Brunt St. Both were kind enough to talk to me about their beginnings, Basin, and their friendship. “We were casually looking for a place for an art studio but we didn’t have time pressure so there wasn’t a sense of urgency,” Galvin […]
They had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the auditorium at PS 32, but by the end of the night the members of Community Board 6, local politicians and their representatives, and various interested community members were having such a good time re-meeting each other that you might have thought it was an early holiday party. Since the beginning […]
It’s always been the view of this paper (and me) that the Columbia Street waterfront, the stretch of coastland between Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Red Hook Cruise Terminal should always remain a containerport. Actually, in addition to the shipping facility, it is also home to the beer distributor Manhattan Beverage and also the Waterfront Commission, a leftover from the […]
By summer 2022, Camille Martin had managed to raise three million dollars to fund breakthrough advancements in skin care products designed with women of color in mind. As she enters a space now dominated by celebrity owned or endorsed products, Camille is staying focused on her mission to provide safe, luxury skin care for women of color––products that could change […]
Is fascism back to Italy? Is Italy going towards its own Trump age? Are civil rights in danger in Italy? Those are the questions now spreading all around the world as Giorgia Meloni, an Italian far-right politician, won Italy’s last elections on September 25th, those which have been the most covered by the international press since at least twenty years […]
On October 29th, 2011, thunder-snow was heard in Central Park as up to six inches of snow fell across the City, the earliest heavy snow in our history. In retrospect, an eerie omen of what nature had in store exactly one year later. 2011 Oct 29 The Frankenstorm came ashore near Atlantic City on a Monday at 7:30 PM. Its […]
On Sept. 7, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Empire Wind announced the extension of their agreement to monitor large whales in the lease area of Empire Wind—an offshore wind project located in the New York Bight off the southern coast of Long Island—from 2022 to 2028. The new agreement ensures that important data to protect wildlife in the New […]
Review of My Perfect Life, by Lynda Barry Review by Michael Quinn In the `90s, when I was in college, a friend showed me a book from her women’s studies course. She thought I might like it. It was a comic book with a bright pink cover with a drawing of a homely-looking girl standing in front of a mirror. […]