Celebrating Community
The Columbia Waterfront District’s Tiffany Place, recently in the news for their fight against a landlord, held a block party notable for it’s difference from past years. In addition to a bounce house, a rock climbing wall, a table with games and books for kids, a solar powered merry go round, music and a lemonade stand, they were visited by […]
Paul Giffone is bringing Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) basketball back to Red Hook for the first time since he last was in charge of it 12 years ago. There were sign up practice sessions during three Saturdays in September at the Miccio Center. “The way I choose the players is whoever wants to play and whoever is going to be […]
The celebration of life for Jacqueline Jackson, who lived from May 7, 1953 to August 16, 2023 took place at an event space upstairs in the Tesla building on Van Brunt Street. Her many friends and family came to remember her. There was food, a DJ played music she enjoyed, there was a slide show with pictures of her later […]
A year ago, Yumedys Gonzalez was one of the more than 22,000 New Yorkers living in a shelter. And like so many, she clung to the dream of one day having her own home. Nevins Street Apartments, which reopened in May 2022 at 50 Nevis Street in a new 10-story, $72 million downtown Brooklyn development, seemed just right. “I would […]
In this, the Harbor Middle School’s first year of existence its students efforts have earned the school major recognition. On Monday, June 12, the school was officially recognized as the New York City Ready School of the Year based on the students’ continued work focused on climate resilience and its work towards environmental justice in Red Hook. The award, which […]
The Harbor Middle School (PS 676) enjoyed an end of the year pride talent showcase on June 16 in their auditorium. They celebrated Pride Month in two ways with the event. LGBTQ+ history was incorporated throughout the show to allow the ability to continue learning while spotlighting the students, their individuality and their talents. This was the school’s first Harbor’s […]
The Care Forward Initiative hosted its first annual Care Hero Awards on June 26 where it honored domestic workers and community allies in the movement for worker justice. We Rise, which is a domestic worker organizing and empowerment organization founded Care Forward. The pilot site is in the Carroll Gardens and Park Slope area. The Carroll Gardens Association is a […]
Last month the Brooklyn Parks Department gave an Zoom update on the progress of the Red Hook ball fields and the four phase construction project. Phases one and two are complete with the exception of a soccer field that will be finished this summer. Davey Ives, the chief of staff of the Brooklyn Parks Department, gave the update. Ball fields […]
Care Forward is a Brooklyn-based standards-raising initiative for care workers and women and this is the country’s first neighborhood based standards-raising initiative for domestic workers. Care Forward, an initiative of the Carroll Gardens Association and We Rise, had an event at JJ Bryne Park on April 28 since President Biden and the White House federally proclaimed April as Care Workers […]
ReKlame Health, a NYC based tele psychiatry and addiction medics provider for the BIPOC community, launched their in-home AUD (alcohol use disorder) treatment program in the city. The program rollout in NYC provides virtual and in-home AUD medicine treatment program. ReKlame sends a nurse to the patient’s home to administer a monthly shot and the same nurse will visit each […]