Day: December 12, 2016

Community Organizations, Health

Who was Sol Goldman, anyway? An introduction to Red Hook’s Rec Center, by Nathan Weiser

Red Hook’s Recreation Center and enormous outdoor pool, open during the summer through Labor Day, is named after Sol Goldman, who was a real estate mogul in New York City. Born in Brooklyn in 1917, Goldman dropped out of Brooklyn College to run his father’s grocery store in 1935, and later on started buying foreclosed properties at low prices in […]