Celebrating Community
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will spend $15 million to build a new Red Hook branch at 7 Wolcott Street. A Community Board 6 Youth/Human Services & Education Committee meeting on October 23 revealed digital renderings of the forthcoming facility, which will replace the circa-1975 library on the same site. Officials say the demolition will take place in the fall […]
During the summer at the Red Hook library young kids get the chance to improve on their reading skills in an interactive and fun way in a group setting. Team up to Read is happening this summer at the Red Hook Library for the first time and is a free program designed to enhance comprehension and fluency in the reading […]
2018 has proven itself to be a monumental year, reeking of political devastation far more significant than ever deemed possible. Yet in light of these events, there has been an unmistakable amount of positivity surrounding a particular political figure. On Nov. 23, former First Lady Michelle Obama released her first book, “Becoming.” The memoir is a coming-of-age story about Michelle’s […]
On October 20, the Red Hook Library hosted a free performance of “Soft” by the Theater of the Liberated. Directed by Carolyn Ferguson, a resident of the Gowanus Houses, the play dramatized the administrative labyrinth that NYCHA tenants have to navigate when they request repairs for their apartments. Last year, the nonprofit Hester Street organized an arts forum called Making […]
If you like biking, like seeing new neighborhoods, and like the Brooklyn Public Library, then Bike the Branches on May 20 is the event for you. Bike the Branches, which raises money for the Brooklyn Public Library, started in May of 2013 and has included the Red Hook Library on Wolcott Street every year since then. Branch Manager Sandra […]
In the summer of 2014 the Red Hook Library was on Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) chopping block because it was the most underutilized in the borough. Now, the branch has been resuscitated under the creative leadership of the Friends of the Red Hook Library. On Saturday, February 25, the Friends and friends transformed the entire library into a carnival […]
The Red Hook Civic Association drew a larger crowd and had a larger agenda than many of the earlier meetings this year. The September meeting was held in the PS 15 auditorium and president John McGettrick held sway over a number of local topics. He began with a tirade against city and state government as even more money has been […]
We just received a most exciting email from our favorite librarian! We love to report GOOD NEWS! George, thanks to your support. The Red Hook Library will reopen on Saturday from 10-5 in October. Please spread the word! Sandra Sutton l Neighborhood Library Supervisor Red Hook Brooklyn Public Library 7 Wolcott Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 Tel: 718.935.0203 Fax: 718.935.0160 917.903.7955 ssutton@bklynlibrary.org
There are three neighborhood institutions in peril. One, the Long Island College Hospital is on life support, and only a miracle will save it now. Barring a major miracle, LICH is gone. The second is the Red Hook library. There is a plan to subdivide the library to provide rehearsal space for city artists. The third is our working waterfront […]
Editors Note: One of the first columnists that we hired at the Red Hook Star-Revue was local girl gone famous Danette Vigilante. She is a noted publisher of children’s books, and we invited her to write a column that we called Growing Up Red Hook. In view of all the recent publicity around the Red Hook Library, we are re-publishing […]