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Karen Blondel crashes Save Section 9 informational event

April 19, 2026 No Comments

On April 9, Red Hook West Resident Association President Karen Blondel crashed a canvassing event meant to inform residents about PACT-related risks, disrupting conversations with residents and yelling expletives at an organizer. “Don’t fuck with me, alright, cause I’ll get you barred from this neighborhood,” Blondel said to a young man who showed up to the canvassing hosted by Save

Running a City Council Office

April 13, 2026 No Comments

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Tucked between a supermarket and a café just outside the 45th Street R train stop in Sunset Park sits the modest storefront office of City Council Member Alexa Avilés. From the outside, it blends easily

Saying goodbye to a great woman, Khadijah James

April 8, 2026 No Comments

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Khadijah James (also known as Toni Jones) passed away last month. Her funeral took place at the River of God Christian Center on Wolcott Street, and it was a packed house. Khadijah and I became

EDC extends BMT public comment

April 7, 2026 No Comments

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy It was a close one. March 31 was the last day for the public to comment on the scope of the environmental review for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal redevelopment, and into the evening, community members,

Lawyers may have figured out a way to get long delayed Public Place housing started

April 6, 2026 2 Comments

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Shovels might soon hit the ground on Gowanus Green, the affordable housing complex on the Gowanus Canal’s western bank. At least according to the consortium of developers behind the project. The developers and the New

Who is it for?

April 6, 2026 No Comments

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get news from the Star-Revue throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On the corner of Columbia and Lorraine Street, the latest and largest affordable housing development in Red Hook is taking shape, yet little is known about it, according to residents we spoke with in

People of Red Hook—April 2026

April 20, 2026

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get news from the Star-Revue throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy People who know their history will tell you that April 20 is the birthday of a very bad man, who I will only describe as the Number One Nazi. But coincidentally, back in the

Modern Insights: Chet Explains the Battle of Brooklyn

April 13, 2026

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy I was enjoying the wonderful new Battle of Brooklyn exhibit running all year at the Center for Brooklyn History on Pierrepont Street when I heard a familiar voice behind me. “They used to call this

Walking with coffee, by R.J. Cirillo

April 9, 2026

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS! Blood is sticky, did you know that? Have you been around blood, blood freed from its bodily vessel, little girl blood, splattered on the walls of an elementary school, bombed on the

Wednesdays in Red Hook… with Evan Yee

April 7, 2026

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Welcome to ‘Wednesdays in Red Hook’, a new series that gives a close-up look into the hard work, unexpected encounters, and delightfully mundane moments that make up an average day in Red Hook. Today we’re

Another movie night at Wraptor

April 7, 2026

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On March 17, Wraptor Restaurant and Bar, located at 358 Columbia Street, hosted its second movie night. A small but enthusiastic group of customers watched Premium Rush while enjoying good food. After starting off behind

Dawn Skeete does what it takes to keep her Red Hook restaurant alive

April 7, 2026

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Walking into Jam’It Bistro in Red Hook on a Monday morning, owner Dawn Skeete is heads-down on a major catering order for the Brooklyn Gardens Elementary School in East New York. She races against the

Endless Waiting for “The Endless Garment”

April 6, 2026

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On a cold Sunday afternoon, you go to Pioneer Works looking for The Endless Garment, a poetry book related to an exhibit at the art space. The sign out front says the space is free

Classic Simone

March 19, 2026

There was a period around and after the development and promotion of Wynton Marsalis as a public jazz star when there seemed a coordinated campaign to add a fancy slogan to jazz. Institutions, promoters, journalists, musicians—when talking about jazz in front of an audience, they would frequently qualify the term by stating that jazz is “American’s classical music.” This always

MUSIC: Wiggly Air, by Kurt

March 19, 2026

Peace (On Earth). On Jan. 21, without advance notice, the pioneering drone/doom project Earth unleashed its latest sonic assault to streaming media. On Jan. 27, Dylan Carlson, the leader and only constant member of the band, refused to play a concert in Bologna, Italy, when he saw a Palestinian flag displayed in the venue. Let’s take these one at a

Coffey Street Studio brings back Experimental Art

March 11, 2026

Coffey Street Studio, an art studio in an unassuming warehouse in Red Hook, is returning its artist residency program, the Coffey Street Studio Artist Initiative (CSSAI). The studio sits right next to the water and has its doors open to all who wish to learn more about what it does to help expose local performers and acts to the community

MUSIC: Wiggly Air by Kurt Gottschalk

February 20, 2026

When 14th Street was Cooler. Back in the deep, dark ’90s, before the Meatpacking District was home to the Highline and the Whitney Museum and the Apple Store, West 14th Street housed one of the city’s great venues for music outside the norm, one that history seems to have left behind. The Cooler was a big, old, retrofitted, basement meat

FILM: Celebrating the singular experience of working in a movie theater, in print and on film

February 10, 2026

One of the best cinema publications out there is Cashiers du Cinema. No, no – not the magazine that gave us Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, and the French New Wave. That’s Cahiers du Cinema. But the confusion is understandable, at least at a passing glance. Both Cashiers and ‘60s-era Cahiers are similar formats and designs, square-shaped with yellow-bordered covers framing