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Charles Escalante is the basketball coach at Red Hook’s PAVE Charter School, which educates kids through the 8th grade. He is in his second year at PAVE Academy Charter School. “I used to coach, with the principal here, in prep school in New England,” Escalante said. “We were in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) and a lot of […]
The Summit Academy boys basketball team continued their winning ways as they defeated the Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance (Bedford Stuyvesant) 110-78 on December 17. After the decisive win over the Bulls, who are in the Brooklyn B North division, Summit is now 11-1 overall and 7-0 in the Brooklyn B division. Five of their seven B division wins have […]
The Summit Academy boys basketball team dominated their first home and conference game of their season as they beat the Cobble Hill School of American Studies, 85-45. Coach Phil Grant’s team came into the Monday, November 19 home opener, that had the gym packed with fans, after recording two convincing wins the previous two days to open the season. On […]
The 76th Precinct is the neighborhood police district. Once a month they hold a public meeting in their basement, on Union Street between Hicks and Henry. Jerry Armer hosts the meetings, and the top cop, Officer Megan O’Malley, answers questions from anyone who comes to ask. At the October meeting, she pointed out a few issues in an otherwise quiet […]
Phil Grant, in his third year coaching the Summit Academy boys’ varsity basketball team, believes that they could win it all this season, which begins on November 17 in the X-Men Invitational against Taft, at Our Savior Lutheran in the Bronx. The first home game is the following Monday at 4:30, against conference opponent Cobble Hill School of American Studies. “Every […]
The Red Hook Local Leaders, led by Robert Berrios and Henrietta Perkins, hosted a meeting to raise awareness about bullying in Red Hook. The meeting took place in the Red Hook library. There were nine people at this event in addition to Berrios and Perkins. Karen Broughton, Felix Ortiz’s Chief of Staff, Karen Blondel, an environmental activist and local celebrity Wally […]
The Summit Academy girls’ basketball team, which advanced all the way to the PSAL city semifinals last season when they lost to perennial power Murray Bergtraum 65-51 at St. Francis College, is back practicing with hopes of an even more successful season. On Saturday September 22, at the Summit Academy Charter School gym, girls’ basketball head coach and athletic director […]
George Bromfield, 63, has certainly earned the title “Mr. Fairway.” He has been with the upscale grocery chain since 1985, two years after arriving in New York from Jamaica, and has never left. “I love this company,” Bromfield said. “I came to this country with nothing. Everything that I have, my three daughters all went to college, is because of […]
The Parks Department came to the Red Hook Library to gave two important updates about the construction and remediation of the Red Hook Ball Field complex. Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Marty Maher said that construction of phase one–ball fields 5-8–will now be starting at the end of this summer instead of in the spring of 2019. “We encountered some challenges in […]
Summit Academy Charter School held their third annual end of year arts banquet in June. It was organized by theater director Tremaine Price. The banquet was held in Summit’s cafeteria. It is a mix of dinner, entertainment and also honors the Summit’s best and brightest art student. The guest speaker was Aisha Jackson, who is standby for the role of […]