Celebrating Community
While I was distributing the Star-Revue last month, a purple plant outside of Jam’It Bistro, 367 Columbia Street, caught my eye. After going inside and dropping off papers, I chatted about the plant with Dawn Skeete, who opened up Jam’It in 2019. I went back later and in addition to finding out about the purple haze, I spoke to Skeete […]
The world knew Buddy Scotto for almost 92 years, I was his friend for the past seven. I first heard about him when I worked for the Brooklyn Phoenix newspaper in the early 1980’s. He was known in the office for getting rid of the ‘stench’ that permeated Carroll Gardens when the wind blew in from the Gowanus Canal. […]
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson announced funding for the Gowanus Houses Community Center and Wyckoff Gardens Community Center with local group leaders, advocates and politicians – including Council Member Brad Lander, Committee on General Welfare Chair Stephen Levin, and Public Housing Committee Chair Alicka Ampry-Samuel. The two centers will receive nearly $9 million from NYCHA and the City Council’s Fiscal […]
Media, Literally The Human Rights Watch Film Festival comes to New York once a year. So when the director of the film ‘Bellingcat’ — a documentary about a popular European ‘citizen journalism’ site — strongly recommended it, we booked a seat. Citizen Journalism is widely believed to provide a cure for the corporate media model. The concept quite rightly implies […]
You may have seen Kathy Park Price around Park Slope or at monthly Community Board 6 meetings. She’s the chair of CB6’s human services committee, co-VP of Community Education Council (CEC) District 15 [whose neighborhoods include Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Kensington, Park Slope, Sunset Park and Red Hook], and the founder of two civic engagement groups […]
Khary Bekka led a multi-day civic engagement workshop for Brooklyn youth at the Red Hook Community Justice Center. Local high schoolers read from information that was presented, gave their ideas and got to hear from the knowledge that Bekka had. Bekka started by asking what they got out of the first day of the workshop and what they thought was […]
At the start of the Red Hook Civic Association’s February meeting at P.S. 15, Neighborhood Coordination Officers Krystal Class and Vegnel Jovin from the 76th Precinct announced that they’d distributed flyers to local truck drivers to inform them of Red Hook’s designated truck routes. For large vehicles, New York City’s official truck route map limits the neighborhood’s through-traffic to Van […]
The thermometer read 11 degrees at 7:05 pm, when the January meeting of the Red Hook Civic Association began in the PS 15 auditorium. A rather large crowd came to hear Gordon Jackson of CORE talk about the new homeless shelter that suddenly took over the Look Hotel on Seabring Street last December. As of the 30th, there were […]
Trucks were the hot topic at November’s Red Hook Civic Association meeting. A huge crowd for the association filled a large part of PS 15’s auditorium. Many came to hear councilman Carlos Menchaca speak on a host of issues. The other big guest was Megan O’Malley, head of the 76th precinct. John McGettrick presided over things as always. He was […]
As reported last month, Red Hook Civic Association co-president John McGettrick informed residents that three giant warehouses will be built in Red Hook. One will be located at 537-555 Columbia Street, just northeast of the BASIS Independent School; another at 640 Columbia Street, just south of BASIS Independent and next to IKEA; and the third at the old White Rock/Snapple […]