Celebrating Community
Summit Academy founder Natasha Campbell is frustrated by low community turnout at the many local events that are intended to be a service to the neighborhood. She invited Red Hook residents to the school meeting to talk about working together. “When you have a million people working on the same project for different organizations, there is little collaboration and what […]
A controversial plan to revise the admissions formula at neighborhood public schools may take longer than expected. Over the last six months, District 15 community members’ representatives from the Department of Education and the Department of Planning have been discussing a potential rezoning for the seven local elementary schools: PS 15, PS 29, PS 32, PS 38, PS 58, PS […]
Red Hook now has a whale-themed mural at the intersection of Nelson and Columbia streets. The mural is aimed at improving the intersection while further boosting the awareness of local students about their community. The artist who created mural was Annabelle Popa. She has painted several murals around the city and outside of the city. A ribbon-cutting was held by […]
Inspired by the Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg, students around the world left school on September 20 to protest for dramatic political action to address the climate crisis – including elementary school kids from all the Red Hook schools and the Brooklyn New School. The PS 676 fourth and fifth grades attended a local rally at Coffey Park, and there […]
Summit Academy got good news from the New York State Board of Regents in May. Earlier in the spring, the future of Red Hook’s Summit Academy Charter School (grades six through 12) was unknown, but a new partnership with the Center for Education Innovation (CEI), a self-described “non-profit education organization and recognized leader in advancing meaningful reforms in public education,” […]
The Parks Department came to Red Hook in August for a community update regarding the long-closed Red Hook ballfields. Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Marty Maher led the sparsely attended proceedings, held at the Rec Center on Bay Street. “The good news is that none of the time frames are affected,” Maher said. “We started construction; the completion times are the same. […]
PS 32, the Samuel Mills Sprole School, on a stretch of Hoyt Street that is sometimes called Gowanus and other times Carroll Gardens, has a new building sitting next to their schoolyard. It was built to address a growing shortage of educational space in what is defined as District 15, and will be open for business in a year. In […]
The Formula E race on Sunday offered many different activities besides just the chance to watch Formula E cars drive up to 174 mph on the 1.475 mile course. Red Hook’s Brooklyn Cruise Terminal featured one indoor and one outdoor Allianz E-Village with lots of sponsored booths and activities for guests of all ages. Each section within each E-Village was […]
During the summer at the Red Hook library young kids get the chance to improve on their reading skills in an interactive and fun way in a group setting. Team up to Read is happening this summer at the Red Hook Library for the first time and is a free program designed to enhance comprehension and fluency in the reading […]
The Red Hook Recreation Center will be organizing a back to school party and parents and children are invited. The back to school party will take place on Thursday, August 15, from 11:30 am until 5:00 pm at Coffey Park (85 Richards Street). Community members will be able to enjoy the annual basketball tournament, carnival games, field day activities and […]