Old Timer’s Day will return to Red Hook, by Nathan Weiser

Old Timers meet last year in Coffey Park.

Red Hookers from all over the country will visit the old neighborhood for the 32nd annual Old Timers’ Day. Held the second weekend of August, this year events will include events at Wine Park and the main event on Sunday at Coffey Park.

Old Timer’s events are held at many NYCHA developments. The Red Hook Houses, originally built in 1939, is one of the oldest.

The Red Hook Old Timers’ Committee oversees the activities. They have been headed by Ray hall the past three eyars.

On Friday, August 11, from 11 am to 1 pm, there will be a senior event in Wine Park, which is next to the Miccio Center. It will be followed by a kids jam. Later in the afternoon will be the meet and greet.

Carlos and Lorenzo meet up at last year’s Old Timer’s event.

“During the kids jam we do fitness and conditioning drills with the kids,” Hall said. “We will run a tournament. These are kids 10 and under.”

“We will do fun activities and games with them, and will give them prizes just to give the kids something to do that weekend,” Hall said. “When I took over I wanted to do things for kids, too.”

Hall said the Saturday activity will also happen at Wine Park. There will be an evening party from 6 until 10 pm since so many people are going to be in town looking for something to do.

“Everybody will dress up in white,” Hall said. We will play music and hang out. We used to do a boat ride but then we wouldn’t get back til the wee hours and people would be too tired to enjoy Sunday.”

Sunday’s main event with food and music will take place at Coffey Park. Everything will start at noon and will go until about 7 pm. There will be a band for the people attending the event to enjoy.

“This is when we will have the Latin band and some regular music playing,” Hall said. “I will bring a powerful sound system, an earthquake sound system. The Latin band will bring their guitars, their drums and their congas and they will perform. It was great last year.”

Hall plans on inviting Affinity Health and those types of group as well as organizations from the neighborhood. According to Hall, organizations will bring food and try to sell their food during the event at Coffey Park.

Share:

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn

Comments are closed.

On Key

Related Posts

An ode to the bar at the edge of the world, theater review by Oscar Fock

It smells like harbor, I thought as I walked out to the end of the pier to which the barge now known as the Waterfront Museum was docked. Unmistakable were they, even for someone like me maybe particularly for someone like me, who’s always lived far enough from the ocean to never get used to its sensory impressions, but always

Millennial Life Hacking Late Stage Capitalism, by Giovanni M. Ravalli

Back in 2019, before COVID, there was this looming feeling of something impending. Not knowing exactly what it was, only that it was going to impact the economy for better or worse. Erring on the side of caution, I planned for the worst and hoped for the best. My mom had just lost her battle with a rare cancer (metastasized

Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club returns to it’s roots, by Brian Abate

The first Brooklyn Rotary Club was founded in 1905 and met in Brooklyn Heights. Their successor club, the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club, is once again meeting in the Heights in a historic building at 21 Clark Street that first opened in 1928 as the exclusive Leverich Hotel. Rotary is an international organization that brings together persons dedicated to giving back