The NY Daily News is owned by Canadian Mort Zuckerman, a real estate developer with a personal net worth of at least $2.4 billion. Once again he blasts LICH using his editorial page to fabricate truth. In many ways we love the Daily News, as it still maintains many of the traditional roles of a city newspaper, including honest investigative […]
Editorials
Op Ed: Thanksgiving for LICH: A Personal Story, by Judith A. Francis
This is a story with copious praise for a hospital disparaged by some who believe they know it well but, like myself before last week, do not. This is also a story about the importance of beauty and care on the way to restoring health; about saving the most accessible places in our city for the majority, and not for […]
Editorial – Our thoughts on a Red Hook for the rich and famous
Community disasters can be natural or man-made. Last year’s hurricane Sandy was of the natural kind, and we are still dealing with its after-effects. Now, the first new construction in the vicinity of the Red Hook Houses has the potential to be a man-made disaster. With little notice, a group from Arizona is planning to build a fancy private school […]
A RED HOOK MANIFESTO, by the Red Hook Star-Revue
The other day, we dropped in on a meeting of a committee formed to plan the dispersal of $3 million of state funds designated to our community by NY State. One of the results of the disaster that was last year’s hurricane has been the formulation of many committees to figure out how our community (and others) become more ‘resilient’ […]
Red Hook Trolley
A story making the rounds right now is the revival of Bob Diamond’s trolley car idea for Red Hook. This time he says he is partnering with John Quadrozzi, Jr., and Ray Howell (a longtime friend of his) of the Gowanus CDC. We have come to feel over the years that Red Hook does not suffer from a major transportation […]
EDITORIAL – An unfortunate public display
Walter Mugdan said it out loud in a meeting at the South Brooklyn High School. The east coast head of the EPA said in retrospect, he wished they hadn’t offered the option to bury sludge in Red Hook. We agree. The prospect of free land for any landlord is a great temptation. The EPA proposed to create landfill and donate […]
Vote your disapproval of the EPA plan for Red Hook – Editorial
Later this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be making a decision about where to dump tons of toxic sludge from the Gowanus Canal. The key word here is toxic. Several meetings were scheduled to explain the process. The EPA is asking our community to vote yes or no to a plan that would expand the shore line and […]
If you don’t know what you’re talking about, NY Times, please don’t talk
Dear New York Times, We defy you. On February 19, you released an article entitled, “Community, Returning to Life, Asks, ‘Where is Everybody?’” Many of us here in little ole Red Hook read it. And many of us are astonished by your lack of insight. To start with, I – as an editor – would just like to point out […]
EDITORIAL – NYCHA’s backtracking
We are disappointed in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). What began as a twice monthly pow-wow with tenants has been cut to once a month. For so many years, tenants at the Red Hook Houses have been underserved by their landlord. Hurricane Sandy revealed to the world NYCHA’s shortcomings. Sandy brought together a group of tenants who went […]