Celebrating Community
Both the private BASIS school, and the public PS 676 are Red Hook schools that helped celebrate Black History Month this past February. The 5th grade read “Brown Girl Dreaming” by Jacqueline Woodson, an excerpt from Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid and poems like “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes and “At the Cemetery, Walnut Grove Plantation, South Carolina, […]
World Arts East Red Hook, which opened last fall, celebrated the Lunar New Year on February 20 with a free community T’ai Chi class. There were five participants. The focus was on creating more vitality as we move through the year of the ox. There was no experience necessary, everyone had their own mats and during the class everyone wore […]
The Red Hook Senior Center has done significant outreach during the pandemic to reach out to the seniors where they live while the center has had to shut its doors. The director Maria Sanchez has found herself even busier than before. “I work more at home than I did when I was in the office,” Sanchez said. “I cross my […]
This article was originally published on Jan 13 at 10:29pm EST by THE CITY New Yorkers in dire need want city food deliveries expanded and prefer items they can cook themselves, according to a survey commissioned by City Hall. The 2020 poll, obtained by THE CITY, found a severe demand for emergency food drop-offs, with 79% of the respondents reporting […]
The GetFood NYC emergency relief food program first started operating on March 26, which was soon after the first positive Covid case in NYC on March 11. The program’s main mission is to get food to people at their homes who are food insecure as a result of Covid-19. GetFood NYC has been delivering twice a week for a total […]
On December 19,the Red Hook Lions Club held their 10th holiday toy giveaway at the Miccio Community Center. This one was not like any that they have had before. Andrea McKnight, who is the head of the Lions Club in Red Hook along with her husband, organized this 28th edition of the holiday giveaway. Covid-19 changed this year’s event very […]
The Red Hook Neighborhood Senior Center, next to the Miccio Center on West 9th Street, has been closed since last March. While the building has been closed, the Center has been far from idle. Director Maria Sanchez has been overseeing lots of activities for the seniors during the pandemic. Sanchez and her staff of four speak to the seniors every […]
In the beginning of December, the NYC Parks Department along with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), held a virtual meeting to update the community on the new timeline for the Red Hook Ballfields and answer questions. According to Parks, the last update was in June, and a lot has changed as far as construction and the budget due to Covid. […]
After opening on September 29, the city’s public schools closed again on November 18 due to the 3 percent threshold in the city. During the time period that schools were open, PS 676 had about 30 kids who were doing in person learning and the rest were only remote. PS 676 did not have a hybrid model meaning that the […]
On the first Friday in November, World Arts East Red Hook (127 King Street) hosted a special action packedCapoeira workshop that was taught by Instructor Malandro, who is the founder and leader of Capoeira Terreiro da Lua. Malandro shared the history, basic movement and commonly played music of Capoeira. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines dance, music and […]