Celebrating Community
The United Parcel Service (UPS), which opened a 1.2-million-square-foot facility in suburban Atlanta last year, is preparing a similar regional hub in Red Hook to serve the Northeast. In a press release announcing the new facility, UPS explained: “The new Atlanta sortation and delivery center is part of an expanded network of regional hubs designed to improve efficiency, service levels […]
The idea of participatory budgeting (PB), which in April concluded its eighth annual cycle in New York City, is admirable and perhaps even inspiring. In practice, however, it feels a lot like New York progressive politics on the whole: somewhat dysfunctional and ultimately empty. An exercise in direct democracy embraced by forward-thinking cities around the world, PB empowers ordinary people […]
A year after Hurricane Sandy, a Columbia University graduate student named Shannon Geiss came to Red Hook to record conversations with neighborhood residents for her thesis project, “Ambiguous Borders: Defining Community in Red Hook, Brooklyn,” an audio walking tour that would earn her a master’s degree in oral history in 2014. Her work found its final interview subject in a […]
At a time when community policing is taking off throughout the city and Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCO’s) have been making themselves available throughout the Red Hook Community, the Red Hook Initiative (RHI) has issued a report condemning local police for being a root cause of violence in Red Hook. RHI’S Real Rite Anti-Violence Research Group, a group that includes Tyneisha […]
The Red Hook Local Leaders hosted a forum in a packed Red Hook Initiative on February 10 so that the community could hear from leaders and brainstorm ways to improve the neighborhood. More than 100 Red Hook residents attended this forum, sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation, Turning the Tide, the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency and 100 Resilient Cities. […]
Seated at a table in the middle of a large room, John “Chicko” Texidor’s small frame was exaggerated by the empty space around him. With a flat affect, he patiently detailed a complicated history of personal development. Though he is now a fellow at the Red Hook Initiative (RHI), a Red Hook nonprofit group focused on youth development, the 20-year-old […]