Month: September 2013

Editorials

A RED HOOK MANIFESTO, by the Red Hook Star-Revue

The other day, we dropped in on a meeting of a committee formed to plan the dispersal of $3 million of state funds designated to our community by NY State. One of the results of the disaster that was last year’s hurricane has been the formulation of many committees to figure out how our community (and others) become more ‘resilient’ […]

LICH, Politics

De Blasio announces newest and greatest SUNY/LICH court order yet, by George Fiala

A bit after one pm, on the 6th of September, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio stepped up to the makeshift podium across from Long Island College Hospital and greeted his LICH supporters. The group, made up of employees, former patients, local residents and politicians, and a press corps that grows bigger each week, meet across from the hospital on the […]

Politics

Why vote for Menchaca/Why vote for Gonzalez, by the candidates for DC 38 City Council

Carlos Menchaca asks for your vote (for Sara Gonzales see below) I’m running for City Council in the 38th district which includes our very own Red Hook. As a resident of this neighborhood, it’s time we elect a visible and vocal leader who will fight for every member of our community. I want to be your next Councilman. Our district […]

Red Hook Houses, Sandy Related

Fine Fare to reopen soon, by Camille Daniels

Since two weeks after super storm Sandy devastated coastal communities, Fine Fare foods has had its doors closed. But in the next couple of months they’re promising a new return with some of the old store mixed in with new products, a new interior, and likely a new distributor. Open and serving Red Hook for some seven years, owner Damien […]

Politics

Star-Revue Primary Endorsements

For Mayor the Star-Revue endorses Bill de Blasio. We like Bill for a couple of reasons. Bill de Blasio has been a friend to the neighborhood of Red Hook, as well as all of Brooklyn as a whole. He is from the area, having represented the 39th District as City Councilman until his election as Public Advocate in 2009. His […]