According to today’s Daily News, the plan to split the Red Hook Library into a library and a rehearsal space has squashed. Library spokesperson Emma Woods is quoted as saying “We heard the community’s concerns and are going to have a robust dialogue with Red Hook residents, community leaders adn elected officials before moving forward with any project.” At the […]
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Editorial: The Red Hook Library and colonialism
The dictionary definition of colonialism is: the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. In thinking about the pros and cons of the library/Spaceworks partnership that was presented before us at the Red Hook library this week, we have come to the conclusion that colonialism is an […]
Plan to divide Red Hook Library derided at CB6 meeting, by George Fiala
A plan to divide the Red Hook library that has been in the works for two years has finally come out in the open. A committee meeting of Community Board6 (CB6) was held at the library on July 24th to discuss a Brooklyn Public Library (BPL)/Spaceworks proposal to take what is claimed to be underutilized space from the book area, […]
Huge CB6 meeting TONIGHT regarding the future of the Red Hook Library
Some of you might have started hearing about a plan that has actually been in the works for two years to allow performance artists to rent space in the public library of Red Hook. This has been presented to the library and to Cora Dance as something positive, as the claim is that the library is underutilized. Our public libraries […]