Celebrating Community
If you hate Valentine’s Day, the experience can mean anything from a simple headache to salt in the wound of recent heart break. Those lucky in love tend to spend the day with their significant others, with displays of love ranging from low-key affirmations to grand extravagant gestures. And then there are the happy singles, who might spend the day […]
The Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation (SBIDC) intends to apply for the New York State Department of State 2016-17 Brownfield Opportunity Area Program in order to complete a Step 2 Nomination Study. SBIDC is in the process of a Step 2 Nomination Study for a study area of Red Hook, Brooklyn now and is eligible for this 2016–17 Brownfield Opportunity […]
Come share a night with Risha Gorig and Franz Landspersky, both local artists from Red Hook. Risha will performan an eclectic mix of experimental/avant-garde music. Raw and Dark, ethereal and vulnerable, her adage of old stories and new are born. She is conjuring up old ghosts and inviting her demons and saints to come forth. Mixing music she has composed with […]
“The Women’s March I attended in DC – and the sister marches in New York, around the country and throughout the world – were a powerful symbol that we are not idly sitting by as Donald Trump starts implementing his radical agenda. “It was nothing short of inspiring to see so many people of diverse backgrounds uniting to support each […]
UPDATE: In a second meeting this week, Brian Honan, NYCHA’s Director of Government Relations, addressed a crowd of angry residents with less babble and more hard facts. The meeting took place in the crowded lobby of 831 Hicks Street, one of the buildings involved in the gas outage. He clarified the situation, explaining that the gas is off until […]
Mary Dudine Kyle, a co-owner of Dry Dock on Van Brunt Street, knows that the holiday lights in Red Hook are special. “When you’re driving back from someplace else that’s really stupid, and you’re sitting at a cocktail party talking to people that you just have to, and all of a sudden, you come to the top of Van Brunt […]
Landmarks Land Use Committee Meeting December 22, 2016 MEETING AGENDA: PUBLIC HEARING on 280 Richards Street (BSA Cal. No. 2016-4299-BZ). OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Discussion and formulation of a recommendation on an application submitted to the Board of Standards and Appeals on behalf of Thor 280 Richards Street, LLC for the grant of a special permit pursuant to Zoning Resolution Section 73-44 […]
It is with great sorrow that St. Francis College announces the passing of President Brendan J. Dugan, a graduate of the College class of 1968 on December 18, 2016. He was 69. President Dugan worked in commercial banking for 40 years before becoming President of St. Francis College on July 1, 2008. Before that, he was Chairman of the College’s […]
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy devastated the original Red Hook Senior Center. Today, the seniors of Red Hook are still waiting to move back into a center of their own. While they wait, they are using a room in the basement of the nearby Miccio Center. “When you are doing construction, and it is something that has been impacted by Hurricane […]
In a large Catholic church located on Verona Street, on the corner of Coffey Park, a massive fresco of the crucifixion overlooks the altar with commanding presence. The 1898 fresco, a painting method done with watercolors on wet plaster, acts as a eye-catching focal point in the large gothic revival-style church. Last year, if you would have entered Visitation of […]