Dear New York Times, We defy you. On February 19, you released an article entitled, “Community, Returning to Life, Asks, ‘Where is Everybody?’” Many of us here in little ole Red Hook read it. And many of us are astonished by your lack of insight. To start with, I – as an editor – would just like to point out […]
Author: gbrook@pipeline.com
EDITORIAL – NYCHA’s backtracking
We are disappointed in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). What began as a twice monthly pow-wow with tenants has been cut to once a month. For so many years, tenants at the Red Hook Houses have been underserved by their landlord. Hurricane Sandy revealed to the world NYCHA’s shortcomings. Sandy brought together a group of tenants who went […]
Red Hook community reacts to EPA plan, by Nic Cavell
On February 13 at Red Hook’s PS 15, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave a presentation to address issues of transparency with its proposed plan for cleanup of the Gowanus Canal. In response to the EPA’s clarifications, which concerned the manner in which toxic sludge would be deposited in a contained disposal facility (CDF) here, the community had one message: […]
The Importance of Tyquan’s Hook, by Nic Cavell
Tyquan Carter’s black sweatshirt shrugs as he clicks down the wooden steps. In the basement’s nadir, he walks past brass cups, a power sander and toilet paper. He pauses, then dusts a canvas bag from the top before he can reach it: his pile of recording equipment—each piece fought for, each piece won. They include a Sony Handycam, a microphone, […]
NYCHA a no show at their own meeting, by Nic Cavell
On January 3o, about 50 residents of the Red Hook Houses gathered in the PAL Miccio Center for the next of the New York City Housing Association’s (NYCHA) biweekly meetings to discuss progress with post-hurricane repairs. A few copies of the organization’s newsletter—now more than one month out-of-date—peppered tables in the lobby. In the auditorium, Miccio Center Director Tyrone Lewis […]
EPA seeks community input on placement of Gowanus sludge in Red Hook, by Nic Cavell
As reported in the Star-Revue’s last issue, a contaminated disposal facility (CDF) at the Gowanus Bay Terminal (GBX) in Red Hook is under discussion. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the stable repository for sludge in its plan for cleanup of the Gowanus Canal. The giant piece of concrete-like crust, or “monolith,” as Project Manager Christos Tsiamis describes it, […]
From Red Hook to Kilimanjaro, by Nic Cavell
It is 7 am, it is freezing, and Frances Medina, 23, is up. She’s sitting at the computer in her mother’s apartment in the Red Hook Houses, and she’s connecting herself to the pipeline of information about Red Hook. She looks at the Twitter feeds of local activists, friends and the kids she mentors with Red Hook Initiative (RHI). Then […]
Strength in numbers confront NYCHA, by Nic Cavell
Strength in numbers confront NYCHA, by Nic Cavell On January 16, representatives from the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) conducted the next in a series of bimonthly meetings initiated to discuss Hurricane Sandy relief with tenants of the Red Hook Houses. In contrast to the January 2 meeting, this meeting was well-attended. And in this meeting, tenants did not […]
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EPA presents Gowanus remediation to skeptical Red Hook audience, by Nic Cavell
A Logical Cycle At a January 24 meeting in the Miccio Center, there was little of the fanfare that met the same EPA team when it placed the Gowanus Canal on its National Priorities List for toxic remediation more than three years ago. This time, the organization delivered their proposed plan for cleanup of Brooklyn’s densely polluted canal to a […]