Celebrating Community
Dorien Williams, who is on the Summit Academy Middle School (27 Huntington Street) basketball team, was recently announced as one of six finalists among junior high school basketball players for the Brooklyn Nets Ultimate All-Star Award presented by Hospital for Special Surgery. Williams and the other five finalists from the tri-state area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) will be […]
The Red Hook Local Leaders hosted a forum in a packed Red Hook Initiative on February 10 so that the community could hear from leaders and brainstorm ways to improve the neighborhood. More than 100 Red Hook residents attended this forum, sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation, Turning the Tide, the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency and 100 Resilient Cities. […]
It is likely that Red Hook will be getting a car share option for the first time once we get to the end of the spring or beginning of the summer. According to Eric McClure, the co-chair of CB6’s Transportation Committee, the car share will take a total of 10 parking spaces in Red Hook and 90 total throughout Community […]
I remember as a kid that perhaps the next best thing, if not better, to pizza was a calzone. In the neighborhood, House of Pizza and Calzones on Union Street was the place to head to if you were hankering for one. It was large, filled abundantly with ricotta cheese and mozzarella, and ham – except on Fridays in observance […]
The Red Hook waterfront has been a site of gritty industrial activity for over a century. The neighbors of one lot on Beard Street, however, have had enough. “It seems like they have a lot of clients and tenants,” says David Trimble, who organizes the yearly Red Hook Crit bike race. “I would definitely like to see it cleaned up […]
Itty Neuhaus’ show installed at the Kentler Drawing Center. As climate change alters the lines that form our world, artists have responded in a myriad of ways that tend to mimic the (mostly destructive) processes operating on the landscape, but through actions and works that aim to be reparative against this real-time destruction. Itty Neuhaus, the Greenpoint-based artist and art […]
Lent, a solemn period on the Christian liturgical calendar, begins on February 14 and lasts for 40 days, not including Sundays, from Ash Wednesday to Easter. The ashes which are distributed on Ash Wednesday come from the previous year’s Palm Sunday palms which are burned and mixed with holy oil or water. During Ash Wednesday services, the “imposition of […]
According to what residents heard at the Miccio Center, Red Hook East and West will all have all-new roofs, a new heating system for every building, brand new playgrounds, new doors, surveillance cameras and better security access, together with some nice landscaping by the summer of 2021. The money for all of this comes from FEMA. This is money that […]
For the first Saturday of February, you can bring your entire family to Mark Morris Dance Group and heat up against the cold. The free event at 3 Lafayette Ave features live music from “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and starts at 3:00 pm. Closer to Red Hook, Sunny’s has a slew of bluegrass musicians performing throughout the month, […]
The Red Hook Civic Association met on January 31 at PS 15. Attendees included NCO Officers Damien Clarke and Jonathan Rueda, Red Hook West Tenant Association President Lillie Marshall, Karen Broughton representing Felix Ortiz, and Robert Berrios from Visitation Church. Buses A major topic discussed was the possible return of the B71 bus line. Robert Berrios, Red Hook’s bus expert, […]