Celebrating Community
Summit and Pave junior high basketball teams got to feel like professionals during a memorable evening. On Tuesday, February 5, the Summit Academy middle school basketball team and the Pave Academy middle school team scrimmaged at the Barclays Center, the home of the Brooklyn Nets. This was during an afternoon and evening where many different schools, primarily high schools, played […]
PS 15, The Patrick F Daly School of the Arts Red Hook’s elementary school on Sullivan Street, needs buses from the MTA so its students can go on field trips. The school at 71 Sullivan Street is about a 20-minute walk from the closest train station. Field trips that would be helpful for the kids are very difficult for the […]
The Summit Academy girls basketball lost 59-40 at Midwood High School on January 18, in a game that was originally scheduled to be played in Red Hook. The 19-point loss ended Summit’s four-game winning streak. They edged Manhattan Center for Science & Math by one at home, beat Francis Lewis by three points, got a forfeit win over Boys and […]
On Thursday, December 20, PS 676 held their second annual gift giving and holiday celebration. This year’s event was a big success. Every student received at least one toy, got to meet Santa Claus (Councilman Carlos Menchaca) and had milk and cookies. There was also a holiday performance by the kids. Principal Priscilla Figueroa, who is in her first full […]
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 […]