Celebrating Community
Red Hook’s Jacqui Painter has been helping Red Hook’s vulnerable population out in a variety of ways and it all started due to her connection with the elderly. Painter, who is from Red Hook, has been working with the Red Hook Senior Center for the last four years and they were her inspiration to start the mutual aid group that […]
Displacement Is No Myth Across the country, gentrification continues to be a sexy political topic for those least vulnerable to its effects, booming in and echoing out of consciousness. Regarding gentrification and the Black church in NYC, displacement is top of mind. For those most negatively affected by gentrification; lower-income, and long time residents, mostly people of color, gentrification […]
Summit Academy founder Natasha Campbell is frustrated by low community turnout at the many local events that are intended to be a service to the neighborhood. She invited Red Hook residents to the school meeting to talk about working together. “When you have a million people working on the same project for different organizations, there is little collaboration and what […]
The Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club, which meets twice a month on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month, delivered approximately 60 kits to senior citizens in East Flatbush on Sunday, September 23. The kits contained free items and information about preventing falls. The kits were provided by Heights and Hills Senior Services, which is based in Downtown Brooklyn and […]
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 […]
The neighborhood buzzed with hungry local residents and newcomers, who came by bike, ferry and foot for the first annual Red Hook Food and Drink Crawl on July 28. “People live here, but may not ever walk in to try the great food and drink that’s there,” said Nancie Katz, crawl organizer and executive director of Seeds in the Middle. […]
The Miccio Center has a new program director. Roland Knight, who grew up in Red Hook, replaces the popular Trequan Bekka, who was promoted to a Good Shepherd facility in East New York. Knight, who wants to be present at as many community events as he can, has seen Red Hook change very much over the years, and in his […]
Inspired by Black History Month, Calvary Baptist Church staged a work of community theater, Brother to Brother, which sought to honor both African-American luminaries of the past and ordinary Brooklynites of the present. The performance took place on Sunday, February 24, at 773 Hicks Street, with a cast of 25 locals. Drama Ministry Director Betty Moorning, a deaconess at the […]
On the last Sunday of each month, at 6 p.m., a potluck for “creatives” – officially the DIN DIN Curated Community Potluck – takes place at 41 Seabring Street. The venue, DE-CONSTRUKT, is a self-described “design studio, photography darkroom, event studio, and project space,” founded by the artist Laura Arena, who has lived in Red Hook for more than a […]
On the afternoon of November 17, leaders of local organizations, activists, and politicians gathered at the Red Hook Public Library with the goal of creating – or beginning to create – a “community-based plan” for the neighborhood. Drawing a crowd of about 25, the meeting was dubbed the Red Hook Community Leaders Summit. “If we, as a community, are not […]