Celebrating Community
On Wednesday, February 7, from 6:30 until 8:00 pm at the Miccio Community Center (110 West 9th Street) NYCHA and the architects of the new designs for Sandy recovery construction will let the community know exactly where the project stands today, the final project design. The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and their construction firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates […]
Editors Note: We published the first half of this story in November. Tina began her tale this way: If you never saw Columbia Street before 1960, you missed a lot. The street is still there; the sidewalks, the street sign, but the stores, the people and the charm are all gone. That strip of avenue is unrecognizable, now lined with […]
More than five years after their Wolcott Street Senior Center was damaged by the Hurricane Sandy floodwaters, Red Hook seniors finally moved into a new building of their own. Since the hurricane, seniors were allowed a half day, which included lunch, in the basement of the Miccio Center, 110 West 9th Street. The building next to the Miccio (110 West […]
The Peacemaking Program, a highly regarded program at the Red Hook Community Justice Center, held a fundraiser to raise money for their second annual trip to the National Museum of African American History & Culture. The trip is slated to happen in August. The Peacemaking program adapts Native American conflict resolution strategies to New York City court cases. This is […]
The JustArts Documentary class at the Red Hook Community Justice Center, which is supported by the Price Family Foundation and Red Hook Labs, finished their second semester teaching multimedia to teenagers back in December. This well-known program that has students attend from all over Brooklyn is a competitive one to get into. On Thursday, December 14, there were 12 students […]
Good Shepherd Services is an organization that helps a lot of young people in Red Hook through various programs today, but it has a history that goes all the way back to the 1940s. The Good Shepherd Services that has a focus on Red Hook as well as the rest of the city was initially incorporated in 1947. It was […]
The 76th Precinct’s monthly community meeting took place Wednesday, January 3. Eleven police officers and eight community members attended the meeting at the Union Street police station despite the impending polar bomb weather advisory. Commanding Officer Megan O’Malley reported on the continuing downward cycle of crime in the neighborhood – down in basically every major index crime category with the exception […]
Brooklyn Workforce Innovations (BWI) will be sponsoring a six-week program with Hurricane Sandy funding for Solar Panel Installation Training and construction. This program, which is slated to start the end of January, is targeted at people who live in Red Hook. Anyone 18 or older can participate, and they will take 15 to 20 people out of the 25 to […]
Jonathon Munez, a Red Hook native and student at South Brooklyn Community High School (SBCHS), traveled to South Africa this summer as a recipient of the Curtis Scholarship. The Curtis Scholarship, conceived and funded by Global Citizen Ambassador and Pearl Jam manager, Kelly Curtis, through the Vitalogy Foundation, is an annual award to mentor and support Curtis Scholars. There […]
“It is a great day for this community,” Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez said at the groundbreaking for the construction of Red Hook East and West. “Here we are in a path to recovery. In that sense, we have to make sure the rebuilding we do is one that is built to last.” The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), along with […]