Celebrating Community
Formula E and the NYC ePrix are reminding graduating high school seniors, who live in Red Hook and the surrounding neighborhoods, that they still have time to apply for a STEM scholarship. Formula E and Modis have partnered to create the first-ever NYC ePrix Scholarship, engineered by Modis, in recognition that future engineers, IT directors and event professionals will help […]
Since 1996, the Swift Folder – the internationally renowned folding bicycle – has assisted New Yorkers whose complicated commutes typically feature some combination of walk-up apartments, crowded trains, office elevators, and city streets. How many of them know that its inventor lives and works in Gowanus? At the time, industrial designer Peter Reich wasn’t much of a cyclist. “I grew […]
On April 29th, Victoria Alexander of Realty Collective convened a meeting of local business owners at the event space RE:GEN:CY on Commerce Street. The goal was to create – or to consider creating – a formalized neighborhood business association for Red Hook. Alexander brought Perch Advisors, a consulting firm, into the process to “offer outside perspective and guidance.” Led by […]
Crown Castle, the nation’s largest provider of shared communications infrastructure, hosted its third annual Connected by Good community service initiative on May 8. More than 1,880 employees spent their day planting, building, painting and improving public spaces around the country. The Floyd Patterson Ballfields, located in Brownsville, were one of those 22 chosen nationwide sites. Forty-eight employees from the company’s New York […]
What do 19th-century dandies, first-wave feminists, commuters, messengers, deliverymen, recreationalists, environmentalists, and competitive athletes have in common? Many of them are (or were) cyclists. As the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibition “Cycling in the City: A 200-Year History” shows, New York’s erratic relationship with the bicycle owes to the disparities in social status of these groups, each […]
Born and raised in Red Hook, Luquana McGriff makes some of New York City’s most beautiful cakes, cupcakes, and cookies. In 2016, McGriff started her own one-woman dessert-catering company, A Cake Baked in Brooklyn. At the time, she was a 911 dispatcher for the New York City Police Department. She’d held the job since 2001, but a childhood passion for […]