Celebrating Community
Columbia Street runs south all the way to Red Hook Farms. Then, before the street meets Halleck Street, a piece of it branches off to the left. The street continues, stretching alongside the Gowanus Bay, before making a tight right. At this point, you can follow it another 750 feet or so until you come to a tall metal fence. […]
On September 28, despite drizzling rain, the Miccio Center was packed at midday for a meeting about the future of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal. Red Hook residents, members of the press, and elected officials scrambled into the senior center’s gym to: grab a coffee and a pastry or sandwich (provided by Brooklyn Bread); grill members of the NYC Economic Development […]
On a beautiful late summer evening in Windsor Terrace some two hundred people jammed into the Holy Name auditorium just off Prospect Avenue to air their grievances. The sounding board on this occasion was Community Board 7, mandated by the New York City Charter to solicit comments from residents about the proposed upzoning of a large oddly-shaped section of land […]
Our temporary library on Van Brunt Street (as you know, our regular library has been deconstructed for the time being) has many classes and events every month and one regular one is Comic Book Drawing Class with Mr. Nick which takes place on Tuesdays from 3 pm to 4:30 pm. Nick Forker is originally from Chicago and has been interested […]
Late Friday afternoon, Aug. 30, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released the results of the first phase of its Gowanus-wide soil vapor intrusion investigation, conducted during the 2023-2024 heating season. The investigation, which tested 113 buildings, found 15 buildings requiring mitigation due to elevated levels of one or multiple contaminants. Five buildings had elevated levels of […]
The How Many Stops Act, which includes a bill that requires New York Police Department officers to record the race, age and gender of the civilians they approach during investigative encounters, officially took effect on the first day of July. (The second bill requires the NYPD to report when a person denies consent to be searched.) Previously, officers were only […]
Gowanus is a changing neighborhood. From once being an area with mostly light and heavy industries, the Gowanus Canal is now slowly becoming surrounded by residential and mixed-use buildings, a process which has significantly sped up since the rezoning of the area was approved in 2021. But the changing scenery has not come without difficulties. In the past decade-and-a-half, environmental […]
A big part of the EPA Superfund plan for the Gowanus Canal is preventing future pollution. One of the biggest polluters is the City of NY, due to the fact that when local sewers can’t handle a big rainstorm, raw sewage is pumped into the Canal. This has been happening for years and is a big part of what is […]
NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) held an informational webinar on August 12 regarding the future of the Columbia Street Piers. Over 120 acres of coastal land comprising the Red Hook Container Terminal, Erie Basin including the Cruise Terminal, Manhattan Beverage, the concrete recycling plant, the Waterfront and Port Authority building, and anyplace else in between were turned over to the […]
While this newspaper doesn’t always hear what our readers think of our articles, we have always been well received by our industry peers. In 11 of the 12 years that we’ve been a member of the NY State Press Association we have been winners in their Better Newspaper Contest. A personal highlight was the year that I was called up […]