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PS 15, The Patrick F Daly School of the Arts Red Hook’s elementary school on Sullivan Street, needs buses from the MTA so its students can go on field trips. The school at 71 Sullivan Street is about a 20-minute walk from the closest train station. Field trips that would be helpful for the kids are very difficult for the […]
P.S. 15 students were invited to celebrate the New Year with Mayor Bill de Blasio as he publicly announced the enactment of a Styrofoam ban. NYC manufacturers and stores can no longer sell or offer cups or plates made from the crunchy white synthetic material. There will be a six-month grace period from the ban’s Jan. 1 start date before […]
Uhuru Design, headquartered in Red Hook, is a multi-disciplinary design firm, founded in 2004. Bill Hilgendorf, Uhuru’s co-founder, explained that he had studied abroad in Sweden for a semester, which is when and where he really fell in love with furniture design and interior spaces. He and his business partner Jason Horvath both attended the Rhode Island School of Design […]
Japanese designer Shuya Iida attended furniture design school in Tokyo, where he learned how to build cabinets and chairs. After graduating in 2009, he moved to New York and studied English. Soon after he began working for a Japanese construction company, making furniture pieces and learning how to build rooms from the ground up. Four years later Iida founded Hachi […]
Eugene “Gene” Manigo, 66, lifts a long piece of wood that looks like a door and places it nearby a saw in his workshop, Hammer Time Studios. He provides instructions to his apprentice, explaining what length and width he’d like for this piece and how thick the wood should be. The two discuss and confirm numbers before the electric saw […]
CAUV Design is located at 132 Van Dyke Street in Red Hook. Modern furniture artist and owner Joseph Cauvel had a knack for building since he was a kid growing up in northwestern Pennsylvania. His father was a firefighter, who would also work a second job for a contractor. “He always had a hobby workshop in the basement or in […]
Architect Allison Reeves has been practicing her trade for the last 25 years – working on a range of residential, restaurants and small-scale retail designs to large-scale cultural and educational projects. Her goal has always been to provide modern design with a focus on the innovative use of materials and research-based solutions. Reeves thought about going out on her own […]
Last year, in June, Ashley Taylor and Cayla Huppert leased a 2,500-square-foot disused warehouse at 22 Commerce Street. Taylor and her fiancé, the designer Tymer Tilton, refurbished the interior, which now operates as an upscale event space for birthday parties, baby showers, bar mitzvahs, and photo shoots. Amenities include a 15,000-watt QSC sound system, a projector and screen, a fog […]
On January 9, the NewFilmmakers Series at Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan screened Followed, a short by local filmmaker Georg Schmithüsen. New York’s longest-running year-round film festival, NewFilmmakers holds weekly events in the East Village, showing hundreds of movies a year by up-and-coming directors. A cryptic, visually expressive portrait of psychological instability, Followed begins at night at Pier 44, where […]
Greg Brown is one of America’s most highly regarded singer-songwriters. He has released over 30 critically acclaimed albums and was a regular performer on A Prairie Home Companion in the 1980’s. Brown’s work has always had a literary quality. His mother taught him to play guitar and raised him on books and poetry. His 1986 release Songs of Innocence and […]
Li-Lac Chocolates is an old time chocolate maker, operating in Greenwich Village since 1923. They made a celebrated expansion to Sunset Park’s Industry City a few years ago. I visited them on a rainy Thursday morning in January, in anticipation of their busy season of February 14. When I got there, they were prepping and making chocolate cherry cordials. Master […]
On February 15th, Abby Hertz will be presenting her final LUST event. After three years, she is ending the series that has fused music, fire performance, art history, and eroticism. Begun on Valentine’s Day 2015, it has more of a nod to Meret Oppenheim’s 1959 “Cannibal Feast” than to an erotic party. While guests eat a feast of food off […]
As online streaming becomes the dominant method of listening to music, the sale of physical units has plummeted with one exception: vinyl records. The once nearly abandoned record has made a surprising comeback as the only growth sector for the music industry, and today is a billion-dollar business with 40 million units sold in 2017. While still a niche market […]
