Celebrating Community
Jam’It Bistro, a Jamaican restaurant at 367 Columbia Street, down the block from DeFonte’s, is making history as one of the first restaurants in New York City allowed to accept Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments under the Restaurant Meals Program (RMP.) Last month politicians and locals gathered there with the bistro’s owner Dawn Skeete […]
Red Hook Lobster Pound, located at 284 Van Brunt St., celebrated its 10th year in the neighborhood on April 25. Hungry guests chowed down and received 10 percent off their bill. The idea behind the restaurant formed after owners Susan Povich and Ralph Gorham took a trip to Portland, Maine, and brought home fresh lobsters. Ralph had told Susan that […]
It’s a classic Revolutionary War battle tableau — formal ranks of fearsome Redcoats square off against a ragtag bunch of… mermaids? It’s the kind of thing one might expect from Duke Riley, the Brooklyn-based artist who produced Semper Defier, the mural that will hang above the bar at Red Hook restaurant Fort Defiance. Riley, whose work is exhibited in several museums […]
It’s 4:30 on Monday morning. An empty school bus rolls up Van Brunt Street. The flag outside the VFW flaps in the pre-dawn October chill. And the plate glass windows of the Red Hook Coffee Shop shine brightly in the dark, illuminating 80 year old Jose Antonio Piraquive, aka Tony, kneeling on the floor putting vegetables into the refrigerator. Tony […]
Star-Revue reporter Emily Kluver spoke to the owners and managers of three local business to check out this month: UBreakIFix, an electronics repair shop in Carroll Gardens; Toby’s Public House, a new Columbia Waterfront District Pizzeria; and Verona Wine Bar, which re-opened earlier this year under new management. Read on to get to know these additions to the neighborhood. UBreakIFix […]
If you hate Valentine’s Day, the experience can mean anything from a simple headache to salt in the wound of recent heart break. Those lucky in love tend to spend the day with their significant others, with displays of love ranging from low-key affirmations to grand extravagant gestures. And then there are the happy singles, who might spend the day […]
Thanksgiving is arguably the most important meal Americans cook in their homes all year. It is also one of the few days that people take on an entire turkey. Needless to say, many people could use a little more practice. To offer people a little more insight into their holiday birds, Bryan Mayer, Director of Education at Fleishers Craft Butchery, […]
Pioneer Works’ ample floor was covered in Red Hook luminaries Tuesday night for the launch of The Good Fork Cookbook, a collection of Chef Sohui Kim’s recipes hitting the shelves on November 1. ”Seeing this amazing turnout, it’s obvious that my children were right when they said, ‘mom’s a famous chef – dad’s a waiter that drinks beer,’” said Kim’s […]