Day: August 12, 2020

Carlos Menchaca, Column, Op Ed, Red Hook News

Opinion- Words by George: The new age of local government’s benign neglect

On July 27, I got an email from Catherine McBride of the Red Hook Initiative which was pretty different than any I have received at this paper since I started it ten years ago. RHI press releases are generally quite vanilla. They are generally about their Red Hook Hub or else something having to do with their fund raising. This […]

Port Authority, Red Hook News, Transportation, Trucks

The Impending Red Hook Traffic Disaster, by Brian Abate

Red Hook is currently awash in the building of new warehouses. No doubt the biggest is the massive new UPS distribution facility that starts across Valentino Park, extending on the water all the way to the Cruise Terminal. The package delivery company paid $303 million for the property, which most recently was to be the hub of a new tech […]