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The “new” Court Street after 6-plus months: A business survey and traffic study

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy The Carroll Gardens Times checked in with dozens of businesses, and spent hours closely observing how traffic is moving on the redesigned street and bike lane.   The redesign of Court Street, which created a protected

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NY-10 Democratic primary: Interview with Brad Lander

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On the eve of perhaps the most crucial election in his nearly 20-year career in New York City politics, Brad Lander sat down with the Red Hook Star-Revue to discuss his political journey from representing

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NY-10 Democratic primary: Interview with Dan Goldman

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Dan Goldman never envisioned himself pursuing a career in politics. While he always had a keen interest in public service and social justice, he sought to make an impact through the courts as an attorney.

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New bike path, 14 Years in the making, connects Red Hook to Sunset Park

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy The newest stretch of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, which opened to cyclists in early May, is just over a mile long. It takes six minutes to bike, end to end.  But this short segment marks

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New Diner Opening in Red Hook

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy As diners close across New York, a new diner focused on serving the community is rising in Red Hook. Val’s, a bar and diner, will open this July in the old Fort Defiance and Pitt’s

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Community Board 6 May Rundown

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy May’s Full Board meeting welcomed a plethora of neighborhood updates, new board members, a street safety analysis and the district’s very own app. District Manager Michael Racioppo shared a district app he built, where users

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Feature Story

Volley and Vibe: Community over clout

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Can competition exist without dominance? In New York City, social clubs can sometimes feel more like cravings for popularity than dependable communities. As social clubs, run clubs and creative collectives continue to multiply across the

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So you want to buy a place in West Brooklyn?

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy A look at the forces shaping the real estate market and what it means for everyone trying to live here. The stretch of neighborhoods west of Park Slope, from Red Hook to Dumbo, has become

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Fishing the Valentino Pier and beyond with Bob Aquatic

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy I have a confession: I cannot wake up before sunrise. So when I ask Bob Blankemeier (known online as Bob Aquatic) what time I should meet him at Valentino Pier for a morning of fishing

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Wednesdays in Red Hook: Selina Ullrich

Welcome to “Wednesdays in Red Hook,” a close-up look into the day-to-day life of people in our community, including the hard work, unexpected encounters, and delightfully mundane moments that make up an average Wednesday in Red Hook. Today we’re following Selina Ullrich, the founder/director of coffee at Red Hook’s newest coffee shop and roastery, High Beam. High Beam opened last

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Knicks 2026 – A surreal experience for a local basketballer

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy The NBA postseason has been a surreal experience as a Knicks fan, and as someone who played basketball with Julian and Justin Champagnie in Carroll Park and the P.S. 58 school yard. I missed out

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POLITICS: A day in the life of Alexa Avilés

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy It’s just past 8 a.m. on a rainy Thursday morning in Sunset Park. City Council Member Alexa Avilés finds herself in a position not unfamiliar to most New Yorkers: rushing out the door, preparing for

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Arts

A Conversation with Filmmaker John W Kim About His New Comedy “Reunion”

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Sure, high school reunions can be a chance to reconnect with old friends and share some laughs over those woebegone glory days when the sun was rising on your future. But in the main, they’re

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Sixty-Five Years Ago: When Gangs Governed Red Hook, told Harlan Ellison’s “Memos from Purgatory”

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy The writer Harlan Ellison had a long, wide-ranging career that spanned science fiction short stories (such as “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman”), television scripts (like the Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of

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Quinn on Books: Author Sally Frances Evokes 1990s Brooklyn in “Carroll Gardens Story”

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Shortly after author Sally Frances moved into Carroll Gardens in the early 1990s, a neighbor told her about overhearing a fight between an adult brother and sister in the backyard of their shared brownstone next-door.

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Shakespeare returns to the park

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On a rainy weekday evening in Carroll Park, activity and mounting anticipation. Volunteers drag chairs into place across the plaza stones. Actors, not yet in costume, leap about on stage, practicing their swordfight choreographies. A

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Exhibition Review: Anders Knutsson’s  The Ultimate Radical Painting

In his latest exhibition at The Wall Gallery, The Ultimate Radical Painting, Brooklyn-based artist Anders Knutsson invites viewers into a fascinating but unknown art-territory where the painting serves as a bridge between the rational mind and the spiritual. Spanning four decades of work from 1986 to 2026, the exhibition is a masterclass in how you can experience the dual character

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Quinn on Books: A Brownsville Fire That Still Burns, “Livonia Chow Mein”

Review of “Livonia Chow Mein,” by Abigail Savitch-Lew Is it true what people say—you can’t go home again? My partner once remarked, “The Germany I left isn’t the same Germany I’d return to.” I’ve never left New York, and I feel just as disoriented. Abigail Savitch-Lew’s debut, “Livonia Chow Mein,” is a novel about belonging. Set in Brownsville, Brooklyn, it

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