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The People’s Candidate Forum covered issues including jobs, climate and justice, while allowing the District 38 City Council candidates to state their cases for being elected. The candidates included Alexa Aviles, Rodrigo Camarena, Erik Frankel, Jacqueline Painter and Cesar Zuniga. Though there were a lot of important questions asked, many of them resulted in similar answers from all of the […]
After growing up in East New York and having lots of experience fighting for marginalized communities, Alexa Aviles feels she is the right candidate to be the next councilperson for District 38. Aviles talked about how there are all kinds of programs and resources across Brooklyn and the city that residents might not know about. “Residents need to have access […]
Pretty much by accident, I was right there when Bill de Blasio’s 2013 mayoral campaign came to life. Lightning may have struck twice as I think I might have been at the beginning of another candidate’s rise. That first time, I was covering a protest meant to save Cobble Hill’s Long Island College Hospital, when a mayoral candidate given little […]
The NY Press Association, a trade group for community media, announced the winners of its 2020 Better Newspaper Contest. For the second year in a row, the awards, normally awarded during their weekend convention in Saratoga Springs, were given out in an internet presentation. The Star-Revue is a perennial winner since our acceptance into the organization in 2012. That year, […]
Around ten years ago Councilman Brad Lander helped take an idea from Brazil and brought it to New York. Every City Council member has about $5 million each year to distribute in their district as they please. This usually takes the form of grants to groups that may or may not support the politician, such as a Lion’s Club or […]
At the end of March, the EPA filed an Administrative Order making specific demands of the City of New York regarding their unkept promises at the Gowanus Canal cleanup. Christos Tsiamis, Chief Engineer of the project, has said many times in the past that the Federal government, of which the EPA is part of, has sovereignty over city government, which […]
Linda Mariano, a lifelong advocate for the Gowanus community, shown above as Miss Gowanus on the 100th anniversary of the Gowanus Flushing Tunnel in 2011, passed away last month. Brad Vogel, who we know from the Gowanus Dredgers, wrote these words in memory of her full life: “Linda and I served on the Community Advisory Group together (she helped get […]
PS 676 held their first autism awareness day on Thursday, April 8, in the middle of World Autism Month. The PTA was excited about being at their first event since the pandemic began. Thursday was a beautiful spring day and many different neighborhood organizations and NYC based developmental and community groups came to the Huntington Street schoolyard. The United Nations-sanctioned […]
Jacqui Painter is a Red Hook native who is running for city council. She has advocated for people for many years, which makes her think she is the right candidate. Some of her goals include: “I will enact a budget and bring funding for food justice because I was on the ground and I know the issue,” “I will work […]
Erik Frankel is a fourth generation family business owner in Sunset Park. While he has spent much of his life in Sunset Park, Frankel has also spent 15 years living in Vietnam. Frankel does not have a political background but is frustrated with the direction Red Hook and Sunset Park have gone. He is unhappy about some of the big […]