Celebrating Community
Thank you, Kobe, for all that you’ve done for my generation. Thank you for being someone millions of people looked up to, for inspiring us to be the best versions of ourselves. Thank you for your countless efforts to grow the game of basketball, being an advocate for the WNBA, and raising a daughter who wanted to be just like […]
At the TWU Local 100 headquarters in Downtown Brooklyn, State Senator Velmanette Montgomery announced her impending retirement from politics on January 11 after a 35-year career in Albany, where she represented neighborhoods such as Red Hook, Gowanus, and Boerum Hill. A former daycare director, Montgomery entered a mostly white, mostly male legislative body – which would remain under continuous Republican […]
Most of the Department of City Planning’s proposed neighborhood rezonings – in Bushwick, in Inwood, on Southern Boulevard in the Bronx – are falling apart. What’s to blame? Bill de Blasio, who’s based his housing plan on upzoning transit-rich corridors to promote the development of market-rate residential units and – through Mandatory Inclusionary Housing – a smaller percentage of affordable […]
On January 29, the Department of Design and Construction (DDC) hosted the first Red Hook Coastal Resiliency (RHCR) community meeting at PS 676, kicking off a yearlong public engagement process that will culminate in the design of the neighborhood’s long-awaited flood protection system. Landscape architecture firm Grain Collective, alongside local partners RETI Center and Aesthetic Soul Community, will facilitate outreach […]
On January 10, the New York City Police Department released footage from an officer-involved shooting that took place in the Gowanus Houses on October 15, 2019. Plainclothesmen Henry Neumann and Matthew Schmalix interrupted a gunfight in progress between 30-year-old Nasheem Prioleau and an unnamed civilian on Baltic Street and fired 31 shots at Prioleau, who subsequently died at Brooklyn Hospital. […]
Originally a hub for adult primary care, behavioral health, and HIV services, the Sunset Terrace Family Health Center has expanded to become a full-service healthcare facility to care for the borough’s growing families. The expansion of primary care and the addition of dental services and a new pharmacy are among the new services now provided at the newly renovated facility at 514 49th Street […]
The boys basketball team at Red Hook’s Summit Academy moved to 11-0 with their dominating 102-55 win over Brooklyn Collaborative Studies (BCS) on January 27. BCS, located in Carroll Gardens, dropped to 2-10 in the league. If Summit Academy wins their final three regular season games, they will complete their second consecutive undefeated season in the B division. Summit had […]
The JR Chronicles exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum is one worth the checking out, and you have until May 3 to do so. The show grabbed my attention when I learned that it featured photos and stories from all kinds of New Yorkers. With audio stories from hundreds of people, as well as fascinating pictures of new arrivals, longtime residents, […]
The PS 676 STEAM Room ribbon-cutting event took place on January 24, but this was a day that had been in the works since the beginning of the school year. STEAM refers to Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math, and the elementary school in Red Hook has recently taken strides to improve its instruction in these fields, culminating in the […]
In January, the pump track at Harold Ickes Playground in northern Red Hook returned after an eight-month absence (and an article in last month’s Star-Revue about the mystery of its disappearance). The pump track is a lightweight installation of ramps and curves, intended to offer a temporary attraction for skateboarders and BMX riders in advance of the construction of a […]