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This is a question that may sound meaningless, but it is not so for Swedish (or Scandinavian as well) handling of the pandemic. Since the beginning of the outbreak, Sweden has not imposed any lockdown as well as any mandatory mask-wearing, which is why roughly 84.7% of people do not do it at all, according to the german site Statista. […]
Red Hook now has a new and modern dance studio that will offer instruction in an array of different styles and mediums. On September 26, World Arts East Red Hook officially opened its doors with an open house that included a variety of dance classes. World Arts East takes up the entire spacious second floor of 127 King Street and […]
The Brooklyn Style Foundation is organizing their very first Fashion Accessories Design Competition where contestants will create a fashion accessory that solves a problem relating to our current situation. This contest is open to high school students all around the country. The impetus to have a competition like this one was partly because of everything that the country is going […]
Na Lakan Masego is a young adult who grew up in Red Hook and has long been a passionate activist for racial justice. He graduated from South Brooklyn Community High school in 2018. The death of George Floyd as a result of police brutality pushed his activism up a notch and led to him start his own group, calling it […]
So We connected Rethink who we’d like to partner with in the future. They were parking their food truck in front of the red hook library providing free meals but that has ceased once school began. Their truck broke down which was the only reason the truck wasn’t there, however my contact who works there showed up. Not sure if, […]
New York City seems to be in limbo as its communities as well as law enforcement agencies search for answers as to how to bridge the obvious disconnect between the communities and the civil servants sworn to protect the people. So that we may better understand the dynamics of the day and bring it all into proper perspective, there are […]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will begin dredging the Gowanus Canal in mid-November, scraping out the thick layer of tar and feces that sits at the bottom of the waterway. But Christos Tsiamis, the EPA engineer who heads the cleanup, warned that a new layer of gunk could start accumulating after dredging is done in 2023, as the completion date […]
As we embark on the seventh month of living through the coronavirus pandemic, houses of worship have continued to be there for their worshippers through virtual prayer and support. In mid-March, they were forced to physically close across the City, being forced to hold remote services for its congregants, instead. Though services were allowed to take place in person with […]
UPS is slowly ramping up their plans for their massive distribution facility in Red Hook. Last month, they finally responded somewhat to questions from local residents about how UPS plans to drive their trucks in our neighborhood. The questions were originally sent to Laura Lane, Communications Officer, on July 2. Jim Tampakis of Red Hook’s Marine Spares International and Tamco […]
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 […]