Celebrating Community
Last year, customers at the United States Postal Service’s Bush Terminal Station (900 3rd Avenue) – the only USPS location in northern Sunset Park – learned that their post office would soon close. More recently, however, a group of Sunset Park residents discovered that USPS’s plans may have changed. On August 15, 2018, the Postal Service held a meeting at […]
Robert Manning used to be a manufacturer in Sunset Park, and he’d like to be one again. As neighborhood groups fight to preserve and renew Brooklyn’s working waterfront amid a possible rezoning of Industry City, the New York City native hopes to make a case for his own longstanding proposal to create a textile manufacturing hub with the help of […]
The topic of student debt is often a confusing and uncomfortable one, with no immediate or foreseeable solutions. For most folks, discussing lingering student loan debt can feel pointless. While there is a general understanding that the current system isn’t beneficial or sustainable, there appears to be little to no reformative action, or outrage from legislators – or, to some […]
According to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), 6,290 individuals live in the Red Hook Houses, Brooklyn’s largest public housing development. This number accounts for every tenant whose name appears on one of the leases tied to the development’s 2,891 units. On the other hand, the most recent census data, which comes from the 2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS), […]
Off the Hook, a Falconworks program at Red Hook’s PS 15, continues to create original youth theater for 11-to-14-year-olds. The latest performances took place in November. There were 15 participants and three different plays (acts). The playwrights, who also act, all live in Red Hook. The authors were Ilse Menke (The Tea), Leryri Crus-Ramirez (The News) and Abigail Romero-Montero (Intoxicated). […]
In October, at PS 676, English Language Arts teacher Jen Thomas led her fifth-grade class across the Hamilton Avenue Footbridge, which spans the Gowanus Expressway between Red Hook and Carroll Gardens. Directly on the other side, the students got to take a look at Brooklyn Collaborative, a school for grades six through 12 that some of them may attend next […]