From Brad Lander: Dear Neighbor, I’m very pleased to report that – in response to our relentless advocacy – SUNY Downstate Medical Center has withdrawn its proposal to close LICH and has announced plans to identify another operator. We knew we had to save LICH because LICH saves lives. Over the last three months, thousands of people raised their voices […]
Month: April 2013
Decision Soon on Gowanus Sludge (July 1, 2012), by Matt Graber and Abby Savitch-Lew
This article originally appeared in the Star-Revue in July 2012. We reprint it here as the deadline for the Quadrozzi option looms: An important decision for the future of Red Hook will be announced this September – the decision about what to do with the 600,000 cubic yards of toxic sludge that will be dredged up from the bottom of […]
Lou Sones speaks at Reg Flowers’ Gowanus meeting last week
Lou reading a statement from GAGS (Groups Against Garbage Sites). This was a meeting in which the EPA was invited to witness in person the Red Hook community’s position on placing detoxified sludge from the Gowanus Canal onto the shore of the Gowanus Bay Terminal, owned by John Quadrozzi, giving his company 450,000 square feet of new land. This land, […]
The Award-Winning Star-Revue
Flash – Just back from the NYS Press Association annnual convention where the Star-Revue picked up 6 awards: 1 – Best Small Space advertising campaign – First Place 2 – Best Coverage of the Arts – Second Place 3 – Best Spot News Reporting – Second Place 4 – Best Columns – Third Place 5 – Best Holiday Special Section […]
Help Wanted
The Star-Revue has openings. The good news is that it is a chance to get into the newspaper business from the ground up. It is a great chance to learn, as we have two top newspaper people running things. The bad news is that pay is minimal, if anything. We need:1 – Part Time Reporters2 – Part/Full time salespeople. The […]
The Governor and LICH, by Kimberly Gail Price
Early in the year, the Comptroller’s office released their annual audit of State University of New York (SUNY), revealing that the state’s largest medical institution was in dire financial straits. For several weeks, SUNY in turn has been faulting Long Island College Hospital (LICH) and immediately took steps to shut down the 150 year old hospital. Local media quickly picked […]