Celebrating Community
Red Hook’s PS 676 held their first Hispanic Heritage Celebration on October 15 as part of National Hispanic Heritage month. Adding to the Hispanic heritage theme of the event was the ethnic food that Kimpanadas, a new restaurant on Smith Street, donated. The owner is a friend of pastor Edwin Pacheco from Redemption Church. A world map gate gave students […]
PS 676, one of two Red Hook public grade schools, with an enrollment of about 100, held a back-to-school supply giveaway in the schoolyard on Friday, September 10. About 40 students came to pick up new supplies, and those who didn’t make it could get them on the first day of school, which was the following Monday. About 200 backpacks […]
On Sunday, September 26, at Washington Park in Park Slope, employers and domestic workers joined hands in an effort to improve jobs and conditions in the domestic care economy by urging the passage of Care Forward. Care Forward is a local initiative that aims to raise, enforce and improve domestic worker rights. [slideshow_deploy id=’14102′] This event at Washington Park was […]
One new upgrade is an improved library with additional books, more space to do activities and new computers. This year there is a librarian and can have lunch clubs and expose students to more literature. There are also additional ways that the library will be utilized this school year. “We are going to incorporate a lot of harbor […]
There are a number of new additions and upgrades at PS 676 for this school year. The school is transforming into a maritime themed middle school. As was written last May in Chalkbeat, “P.S. 676 Principal Priscilla Figueroa admits it was a hard decision. “But I, like everyone else in the community who is advocating for 676, have to be […]
Formula E returned to Red Hook in July- this year with some COVID restrictions. The organizers set up three separate “bubbles” for the three main entrance areas. The fans who entered at the E Village area got complimentary tickets and everyone who entered from the media entrance or who was associated with one of the sponsors or race teams could […]
The Brooklyn Parks Department Office along with the Environmental Protection Agency held a zoom meeting on June 15 to give an update on the construction of the Red Hook Ballfields. The first community update meeting about the Red Hook Ballfields was held in 2015. The EPA deemed that the fields needed to be remediated due to led contamination. As of […]
On the last Saturday of June, Red Hook Houses hosted an anti-violence fair in Coffey Park. The Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP) network engages residents impacted by violence with support services and resources. Many neighborhood and city organizations set up information tables at the fair. There was the Red Hook Community Justice Center, representatives from Brooklyn District Attorney […]
After growing up in East New York and having lots of experience fighting for marginalized communities, Alexa Aviles feels she is the right candidate to be the next councilperson for District 38. Aviles talked about how there are all kinds of programs and resources across Brooklyn and the city that residents might not know about. “Residents need to have access […]
PS 676 held their first autism awareness day on Thursday, April 8, in the middle of World Autism Month. The PTA was excited about being at their first event since the pandemic began. Thursday was a beautiful spring day and many different neighborhood organizations and NYC based developmental and community groups came to the Huntington Street schoolyard. The United Nations-sanctioned […]