Celebrating Community
It is apparent, even at a distance, that among the primary concerns of most New York City voters are safety from crime and the need for the police department to insure increased public accountability for it’s actions. While these issues resonate in Red Hook, the community also faces at least two major environmental challenges in the immediate future. Currently a […]
This year has demanded that all New York City families and students do so many things differently—they’ve had to think differently, learn differently, and connect differently with teachers, peers, and the whole school community. At the Department of Education, we know we also have to think differently as we look towards the summer. For the first time ever, we are […]
The NY Press Association, a trade group for community media, announced the winners of its 2020 Better Newspaper Contest. For the second year in a row, the awards, normally awarded during their weekend convention in Saratoga Springs, were given out in an internet presentation. The Star-Revue is a perennial winner since our acceptance into the organization in 2012. That year, […]
Don’t be surprised to see a sailboat docked near the Brooklyn Bridge this May while NYC Ferries travel in either direction. What makes French company Grain de Sail’s 50-ton, modern cargo sailboat special is that it is powered by the wind – marking the emergence of a green logistics chain that relies on renewable resources instead of fossil fuels. The […]
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 […]