Celebrating Community
Neddi Heller’s paintings are in “Welcome Back Home” a curated art exhibit by Erin Treacy and Krista Dragoner now hanging in the back room at Sunny’s. The show will be up through May 18. Last year Heller had a solo show at Sunny’s which opened on March 6, and it, and just about everything else ended up closing about ten […]
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum reopened to the public on March 25 after more than a year of closure. Ashley Allen, the museum’s public relations director, said the museum felt encouraged by the enthusiastic response to its reopening particularly on March 27, when the weather was beautiful for its first Saturday in operation. “As spring weather rolls in […]
Six candidates have their eye on the city council seat once held by Mayor Bill de Blasio in Brooklyn’s 39th district, spanning the neighborhoods of Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace and Kensington. In terms of private funds, it’s the second richest race in Brooklyn, with each hopeful having raised more than $30,000 and total fundraising exceeding […]
On February 25, Council Member Carlos Menchaca blasted a Red Hook developer’s decision to avoid the City’s public review process to pursue a major rezoning. The following statement was delivered during a Brooklyn Community Board 6 meeting on the proposal: “The developer first approached my office about their ‘Model Block’ concept over two years ago. At the time, the concept […]
After a year of closure, El Museo del Barrio reopens on March 13. To kick-off the celebration, the nation’s leading Latino and Latin American cultural institution is physically unveiling an exhibition titled “ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21” – the museum’s first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art. “ESTAMOS BIEN” debuted online in July 2020 with a series of […]
Long ago, in a galaxy far away, a band of aliens and quasi-rebels banded together to Tnegotiate terms of survival with the overlord of a nearby space station, the “IC”, – massive and imposing – that had parked itself permanently in their quaint little neighborhood. Now the Overlord, Kimballa II, from the imperious, if not ruthless Kimballian tribe, wanted to […]
Today December 15th Been here 65 years I seen the good the bad and the ugly. Another Shooting in Red Hook this time a 22 Year Old was killed. We have had many Shooting in the Community from 17 Year Old being Shot 4 Times, Someone Shot in the Foot. To much gun violence, Drug Dealing, The Community is dirty […]
A Simple Desultory Philippic PAUL SIMON: “And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered I don’t have a friend who feels at ease I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered or driven to its knees But it’s all right, it’s all right We’ve lived so well so long Still, when I think of the road we’re […]
Hurricane Sandy was a storm of the century. Which these days means a storm that seems to hit two or three times a year. But that’s another story. Our story is about Sandy and Red Hook. Sandy put us under two feet of water, plunged us into darkness for three weeks and thrust us into the national spotlight. Two young […]
It may be a tad overoptimistic to say that, by the time most of you see this piece, the election will be over, but at least, in most cases, the voting itself will have been concluded (except for some of the folks still waiting on line in areas of Georgia with heavy minority populations). This presents quite a dilemma for […]