There are three neighborhood institutions in peril. One, the Long Island College Hospital is on life support, and only a miracle will save it now. Barring a major miracle, LICH is gone. The second is the Red Hook library. There is a plan to subdivide the library to provide rehearsal space for city artists. The third is our working waterfront […]
Port Authority
Garbage truck update
Last week we reported that a fleet of garbage trucks was rented space inside of the Red Hook Containerport alongside Degraw Street between Columbia and Van Brunt Streets. Neighbors were complaining because of the stench that was emanating through the fence as the hot sun was heating up garbage left in the trucks after their nightime pickups. Last Saturday, neighbors […]
More on the Pier 9 Rockfest, by George Fiala
Online readers may have seen a story we put up about an advertised music festival to take place on Pier 9A October 11 and 12. The promoters sent out a press release at the end of July, and various bloggers and news outlets previewed the event as if it were a done deal. In fact, the promoters are right now […]
Port Authority disses Red Hook big time, by George Fiala
For at least the past six weeks, the Port Authority has rented space alongside Degraw Street between Van Brunt and Columbia to a Bronx garbage company. At night, they switch on a bright light and their drivers head out to do their collections. During the day, the trucks sit idle, many of them still containing remnants of their collections, and […]