New York City has added play streets to its open streets initiative. “Young people deserve the chance to play freely in their neighborhoods while staying safe from COVID-19, and Play Streets will go a long way toward easing the burden of a summer unlike any other,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. Organizing Partners will be responsible for setting up barricades […]
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Red Hook Relief is a volunteer-led mutual aid group in Red Hook that started during the Covid-19 pandemic.
They work with at-risk neighbors, and in collaboration with long standing community members, non-profit organizations, local officials and businesses to leverage community access to resources and engage volunteers within a network of mutual care. Through working directly with local Red Hook organizations like Miccio Community Center, Red Hook Initiative, Red Hook Farms, Red Hook Art Project and Red Hook Container […]
Hook Arts Media receives Cares Act funding.
Hook Arts Media (formerly Red Hook’s Dance Theater ETC) has been approved for a $50,000 award as part of the federal CARES Act. Hook Arts Media (HAM) is one of the 855 arts organizations approved for CARES Act funding. HAM’s in-school multidisciplinary programs primarily serve NYC transfer high schools. Also, Hook Arts Media’s community filmmaking programs pay young people as […]
Stepping in to help her neighbors, by Nathan Weiser
Red Hook’s Jacqui Painter has been helping Red Hook’s vulnerable population out in a variety of ways and it all started due to her connection with the elderly. Painter, who is from Red Hook, has been working with the Red Hook Senior Center for the last four years and they were her inspiration to start the mutual aid group that […]
Red Hook’s Marine Railroad: Déjà Vu All Over Again?
In Arthur Miller’s 1955 play, A View from the Bridge, the narrator Alfieri describes our Brooklyn waterfront as “the gullet of New York, swallowing the tonnage of the world.” And the New York Dock Railway was the spoon that kept it fed. We could use such a spoon again, now that United Parcel Service has come to town. In 1982 […]
BELOVED RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER SHUTTERS AHEAD OF DE BLASIO BUDGET CUTS
Good Shepherd Services Urges Mayor to Rethink Budget Ahead of Next Week’s Deadline 1,300 Red Hook Youth and Neighbors Lose Vital Community Center Brooklyn, New York – As a result of the Mayor’s Executive Budget proposal eliminating the Beacon, Cornerstone, School’s Out NYC (SONYC) and COMPASS programs, in Red Hook, the Joseph Miccio Cornerstone Community Center was forced to shut its doors on […]
Red Hook votes, by Nathan Weiser
Tuesday, June 23 was election day in Red Hook and PS 15 (71 Sullivan Street) and the Miccio Community Center (110 West 9th Street) were two locations that Red Hook residents could go and vote. A popular way to vote during this pandemic we are in has been to vote via absentee ballot. Another way people have voted was on […]
RHAP and 676 soldier on
The Red Hook Art Project (RHAP) pivoted very soon after the COVID-19 pandemic and like so many other institutions began to offer virtual programing. RHAP provides free visual art, music, academic and stress management instruction after school to Red Hook students. Their classes are intentionally small, and they strive to give each student individual attention during each class. Special attention […]
Red Hook’s Justice Parade
In case you’ve been sleeping for the past six weeks, the United States has undergone yet another transformation. No, I’m not talking about the pandemic, although it could be that it is the disaster of COVID, combined with a really sick example of police brutality towards a black person, that has pushed the civil rights/social justice movement to what seems […]
Phase 2 of Reopening Has Finally Begun in Brooklyn
Local businesses are beginning to open back up after being months of being shut down due to coronavirus. Salons and barbershops can now reopen, and I was able to get my first haircut in over three months. They are only allowed to have 50 percent of maximum occupancy for both employees and customers but are already getting lots of business […]