None of the community or political things that I have been following have reached the next milestone. I will update you anyway. The alternative is to revert to a reverie of spring and hold forth on the rebirth it represents (my wife says that’s what writers do when they have nothing to say). Anyway that’s not me. Since the recent […]
Month: May 2015
The story behind Van Brunt’s Penninsula Gallery, by Alexandra K. Corbin
Along Van Brunt street there are some interesting gallery spaces. What’s nice for Red Hook is that each one looks and feels quite different. That should come as no small surprise since the directors of each could not be more dissimilar. One of them, Peninsula Art Space, is the newest denizen of what was once an old foodmarket strip. […]
City Comptroller calls Build It Back “a case study in dysfunction”, by George Fiala
In June, 2014, at a meeting at PS 15, Amy Peterson, Mayor de Blasio’s head of the Build It Back program, spoke to residents about the Build It Back program. We wrote at the time: “New York City’s answer to the major damage from Hurricane Sandy was meant to offer millions of dollars of assistance to families and businesses reconstructing […]
In Red Hook we take care of our own, by Carlos Menchaca
Dear Neighbor, It has been almost 30 months since the senior center on Wolcott Street was destroyed by the waters of Super-Storm Sandy. However, the good news is the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is aggressively moving forward with plans to renovate the building next to the Joseph Miccio Community Center to serve as a fully functional senior center […]