Celebrating Community
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated New York City. After a few awful months, the real estate market is now slowly improving in what has become “a new normal.” “It was pretty drastic the first three months after the pandemic hit,” said Nick Ferrone, a real estate broker for Compass, located on Court St. in Carroll Gardens. “I occasionally showed empty […]
In its contentious rezoning proposal, the Department of City Planning reimagines Gowanus as an urban Venice—or something vaguely resembling Miami. The sketches in the Waterfront Access Plan the city presented last year show pedestrians crossing bridges with scenic views of the canal. They show children frolicking in waterfront parks shaded by trees and new residential highrises that shine with glassy, […]
As the city and NYCDOE scramble to put a plan in place for the 2020-2021 school year, we can’t lose sight of the importance of equity. We need to be mindful of what is happening to each segment of our diverse communities because equity isn’t found at the average or sum total of what is being experienced. In 2013, Bill […]
Presidential political campaigns have coat tails which during their elections can pull borderline Congressional and Senate candidates along for the ride. The city’s 11th CD, which is all Staten Island plus hefty pieces of southern Brooklyn, including Bay Ridge, is in play with a hotly contested race. In fact the national Dems and Republicans and their respective allies regard this […]
(photo above: Brett Yates, winner of the Thomas Butson Award for In-Depth Journalism) I started the Red Hook Star-Revue ten years ago this summer. The main reason was that I like the newspaper business, a second reason was that I found Red Hook a challenging and interesting community, which I suspected had lots of stories to tell. A third […]
Many neighborhoods across New York City have implemented community refrigerators during the pandemic and as of August 16 Red Hook has one as well. Hashtag Brooklyn had a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open the fridge. Anaika Forbes, who started at Hashtag Lunchbag Brooklyn four years ago, has been helping people get food since the beginning. The ribbon cutting ceremony […]
In the 1980s, most, but not all, of Sunset Park was linked in the State Assembly with most of Park Slope and Windsor Terrace in a district which was majority Latino on paper, but where the majority of voters were white. Since the 1984 election, it had been represented by Jim Brennan, a white liberal whose support was based in […]
As Red Hook awaits news on UPS’ plans for truck routes as they build a massive distribution center spanning from Valentino Park to the Cruise Terminal, multiple large construction projects are also under way in the neighborhood. One will be a large parking lot for Verizon across the street from IKEA. Another will be a three-story logistics facility at 640 […]
A Build the Block Neighborhood Policing and Safety meeting for 76th Precinct Sector D / Public Service Area (PSA) 1 was held in the beginning of August on Coffey Street for residents to discuss public safety and other issues in the neighborhood and surrounding area. Officers Clarke and Conti are the Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCOs) for Sector D and were […]
Since the Romantic age, every time a society brings a fight in the streets against an alleged regime, Western countries everywhere cheer, with the belief that the unrest is a step towards the idea of “modern democracy.” Nowadays the same is happening for Belarus, where the former-Soviet president Lukashenko has ruled as a dictator for over 26 years. Recent election results, in […]