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 […]
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Politics: A Simple Desultory Phillipic, by Howard Graubard
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 […]
The story of the Red Hook Volunteer Jams, by Gene Bray
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 […]
And to Think That I Saw it on Pennsylvania Avenue, column by Howard Graubard
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 […]
Food truck in front of the red hook library
So We connected Rethink who we’d like to partner with in the future. They were parking their food truck in front of the red hook library providing free meals but that has ceased once school began. Their truck broke down which was the only reason the truck wasn’t there, however my contact who works there showed up. Not sure if, […]
Five Points to be made about the Past, Present, and Future state of relations between the N. Y. P.D. and its communities.
New York City seems to be in limbo as its communities as well as law enforcement agencies search for answers as to how to bridge the obvious disconnect between the communities and the civil servants sworn to protect the people. So that we may better understand the dynamics of the day and bring it all into proper perspective, there are […]
Rock’s Out and Bach’s In on Patrick Higgins’ TOCSIN
The biggest surprise about Patrick Higgins’ 2015 record Bachanalia was how straight he played it. Maybe best known as a guitarist for the experimental trance group Zs, Higgins approached a variety of Bach’s works for solo strings and keyboard on their own terms, adapting them to his instrument without trying to repurpose or contextualize. It’s that part of Higgins’ head […]
Brooklyn’s Soviet-style voting, by Howard Graubard
Frustrated as we are the almost complete irrelevance of our vote in the Presidential race to the ultimate result, the desire of Brownstone Brooklyn voters to at least send a complete up and down the ballot repudiation to the GOP in its entirety has been cleverly frustrated by the Brooklyn GOP’s decision not to run candidates. Local Republicans in my […]
Schools in COVID: Excellence at the expensive of equity?
As the city and NYCDOE scramble to put a plan in place for the 2020-2021 school year, we can’t lose sight of the importance of equity. We need to be mindful of what is happening to each segment of our diverse communities because equity isn’t found at the average or sum total of what is being experienced. In 2013, Bill […]
A community fridge come to Red Hook
Many neighborhoods across New York City have implemented community refrigerators during the pandemic and as of August 16 Red Hook has one as well. Hashtag Brooklyn had a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open the fridge. Anaika Forbes, who started at Hashtag Lunchbag Brooklyn four years ago, has been helping people get food since the beginning. The ribbon cutting ceremony […]