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Covid takes a Brooklyn newspaper pioneer, by George Fiala, Tracy Garrity and Peter Haley

New – the Phoenix is now online!  https://www.digifind-it.com/phoenix/views/home.php COVID takes a Brooklyn newspaper pioneer by George Fiala Michael A. Armstrong, originally from the state of Washington, but who spent the majority of his 79 years in Boerum Hill, passed away last month after spending 17 days on a ventilator at Methodist Hospital. Dnynia, his wife and publishing partner, succumbed a […]

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Red Hook Crimes Laid To Wretched Housing in Area, Brooklyn Eagle, 1927

  Rooms without windows and poor ventilation cited by Board Brooklyn Eagle, March 22, 1927 Substition of the All-Day Club for the All-Night Club was seen as a remedy for any crime menace in Red Hook by Mrs. Ida Wambold, superintendent of the Flatbush Boys Club, who today advocated the establishment of a community center for the whole family in […]

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Keeping a Carroll Gardens tradition alive, by Mary Ann Pietanza

Vito Parente has good reason to be celebrating these days. The president of Carroll Garden’s  Van Westerhout Cittidini Molesi Cultural and Social Club is breathing new life into the organization. He is navigating the Italian social club scene onto new turf at a time when change is not just inevitable, but almost necessary as it faces an aging membership. Parente, who […]

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Red Hook History: Where exactly was Fort Defiance anyway? by Connor Eugene Gaudet

The story of the Revolutionary War redoubt, Fort Defiance has been told in the pages of this newspaper before, so while it isn’t necessarily worth retelling the story of the role it played in the early days of the Revolution, it might be worth visiting its more recent past – that is, the curious tale of it’s debated location. Van […]

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Red Hook History: When the Pointers & the Creekers divided Red Hook, by Connor Eugene Gaudet

During much of the 19th century, most of Red Hook east of Dwight Street was basically underwater. Even while they built up the criss-crossing grid of streets, the lots between graded roads were dominated by marshes and tidal pools. To fill it in, the owner, William Beard, leased it out to “carters,” who would pick up people’s garbage and the […]

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Red Hook History: Red Hook Houses originally slated for the ballfields, by Connor Eugene Gaudet

With rents increasing and condos popping up like mushrooms all around us, Red Hook seems to be changing more and more rapidly. It probably feels this way because we have become accustomed to the landscape around us, the neighborhood that we know and love. But Red Hook has always been susceptible to change, and just as decisions and events are […]