Celebrating Community
The Red Hook Civic Association, which restarted with new leadership earlier this year, made a notable impression in the NYC media world with a major story about its push for a new express bus taking Red Hookers to lower Manhattan. This is a long term project of the Civic Association, and almost came to pass in 2008 until the financial […]
The Tipsy Grape Wine Bar is providing Carroll Gardens with great wines and great music. “I’m not originally from the neighborhood but my partner Zura used to come here for the restaurants on Smith St.,” said Alex Golant, co-owner of Tipsy Grape. “There’s also Clover Club which is a famous cocktail place that we liked and used to go to […]
There have been a lot of cases in Red Hook where the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has failed to make repairs in a timely matter. However, Michael Eaddy, a longtime resident at 453 Columbia St., shared a positive experience he had with NYCHA. Though Eaddy originally grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, he had family living on Lorraine St. which […]
Raices, a Latinx and Hispanic heritage art exhibit has come to Red Hook! The exhibit had its grand opening on Oct. 28 and is open on weekends from 1-6 pm through Nov. 19. There is a possibility that the arcade may live on past November. The video game gallery is located at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) at 481 […]
While I was distributing the Star-Revue last month, a purple plant outside of Jam’It Bistro, 367 Columbia Street, caught my eye. After going inside and dropping off papers, I chatted about the plant with Dawn Skeete, who opened up Jam’It in 2019. I went back later and in addition to finding out about the purple haze, I spoke to Skeete […]
NYC Parks and Recreation held a breast cancer survivor walk which began at the Red Hook Recreation Center on 155 Bay Street on Oct. 27. The event included speeches from survivors and community leaders. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The event was held in the Park’s facility to bring awareness and make sure that both men and women are […]
Telephone pranks are usually seen as an entertainment for kids – but international politics has actually discovered that it could also be a very serious issue, moreover if the victim is Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, a front-runner of Ukrainian support. On November 1st, a Russian comic duo, Vovan and Lexus, released online the audio of a prank where Meloni was […]
On a rainy Saturday afternoon in October, about a dozen transportation enthusiasts assembled at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering in Downtown Brooklyn, their predominantly male bodies warming the room and filling it with the scent of body odor. Each room had a different scheduled presentation or discussion topic as part of 2023 Transportation Camp—a conference for those passionate about transportation—and […]