Celebrating Community
In October, at PS 676, English Language Arts teacher Jen Thomas led her fifth-grade class across the Hamilton Avenue Footbridge, which spans the Gowanus Expressway between Red Hook and Carroll Gardens. Directly on the other side, the students got to take a look at Brooklyn Collaborative, a school for grades six through 12 that some of them may attend next […]
A new YouTube genre has gone viral in New York City. This fall, NYPD cops became social media stars inside the city’s subway stations, thanks to iPhone videos recorded by MTA passengers. At home, Facebook and Twitter users watched the officers – sometimes a dozen at a time – swarm fare-evaders, tackle a candy vendor, point loaded guns into a […]
NYCHA will soon demolish a row of shuttered storefronts on the west side of Clinton Street between Hamilton Avenue and Mill Street. Three evicted businesses – Frankie’s First Stop Deli, the Red Hook Pharmacy, and Smart Tax – will relocate to a newly rehabilitated structure, also owned by NYCHA, at the corner of Columbia Street and West 9th Street. The […]
The cheapest type of movie you can make is a movie that takes place on paper – that is, a novel. Cinema and prose fiction are different art forms with different strengths, but don’t tell that to Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995), the French crime novelist whose 1972 literary sensation Nada recently appeared in English for the first time, thanks to New […]
The latest buzzword in education is the acronym “STEAM,” which refers to science, technology,engineering, art, and math. It’s grown especially popular in New York City, where the Brooklyn STEAM Center, a half-day public technical high school offering internships and professional training, opened in the Navy Yard early this year. Where did this term come from, and why does it so […]
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will spend $15 million to build a new Red Hook branch at 7 Wolcott Street. A Community Board 6 Youth/Human Services & Education Committee meeting on October 23 revealed digital renderings of the forthcoming facility, which will replace the circa-1975 library on the same site. Officials say the demolition will take place in the fall […]
The seventh annual Barnacle Parade took over the streets of Red Hook on the evening of October 29. This year, the homemade neighborhood extravaganza took on the theme “Hook-Lantis, ”reimagining Red Hook as a fully underwater city, where public submarines–with humans and sea creatures alike as co-passengers–stand in for MTA buses. As usual, the event drew a wide range of […]
On television, the Democratic candidate Andrew Yang has for the past year run a single-issue campaign for president in 2020, centering a promised universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000 a month for every adult in the United States. His website, however, lists about 200 additional policy proposals, the most novel of which may be the American Mall Act, which aims to find […]
On October 5th, Prospect Heights resident Jabari Brisport launched a campaign for State Senate in District 25, which stretches from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Sunset Park and includes Red Hook. A math teacher at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, Brisport ran for City Council on the Green Party line in 2017, earning 29 percent of the vote, but will now vie for the Democratic Party’s nomination. Brisport’s anticapitalist platform advocates […]
What do Alex P. Keaton, Carlton Banks, and Patrick Bateman all have in common? They’re all Young Republicans. All of them are also fictional. In the real world, in 2019, conservatives below retirement age are sometimes harder to come by, especially in Brooklyn’s hipper enclaves. I live in gentrifying Bushwick, where everyone I meet is a 27-year-old tattooed graphic designer, […]