Celebrating Community
Faithful readers of this paper will remember how I discovered one the great community gems that Brooklyn has to offer (and offered for over fifty years). I what because of the late Nino Pantano that I found myself in a Sunset Park elementary school auditorium being blown away by talent that I thought was only reserved for tourists and well-heeled […]
After enjoying many evening meals at Wraptor Restaurant and Bar, 358 Columbia St., I decided to try breakfast. I got a western omelet which came with toast and fries. The omelet was big and tasty, and the eggs weren’t runny at all. There were big portions of ham, onions, and peppers in the omelet. I also had a glass of […]
My partner, Rainer, is German. He came to America at midlife to find himself, which included coming to terms with being gay. I once asked him what he learned about the Holocaust in school. I feared it might be something like, “Hitler was a great man. It’s too bad — he almost got away with it!” But no, that wasn’t […]
On the day before Earth Day, Harbor Middle School did their part to clean up the area around the school. The Green Team did a Beautify the Block activity where they did a loop around the perimeter of the school picking up trash. Each student got gloves and a plastic bag and they shared a plastic picker to pick up […]
The Red Hook Locals Softball League is back for a fourth season and began with a triple header on April 17. In 2022, B61 beat Bait & Tackle to become champions and win the Colucci Cup, in 2023, Bait returned the favor and beat B61 in the championship, and last season B61 beat the Wobblies in the championship. Unlike last […]
A stunning photo was released after the funeral of Pope Francis, last April 26th: Zelensky, Trump, Macron and Starmer seemingly exchanging amenities ahead of the mass. The message of the photo is clear if read together with the picture of Trump and the Ukrainian leader speaking face-to-face in a corner of Saint Peter Basilica: France and the UK brokered this […]
“Welcome to Venice Jerko!” On the opposite side of the Gowanus Canal, the message, graffitied on the wall of a brick building, welcomed during a part of the 2010s new residents moving into luxurious 365 Bond, the first residential development along the canal. A static shot of the sardonic greeting captures a core theme of the new documentary Gowanus Current: […]
I walked all over Red Hook on a warm, windy day, and asked: What pisses you off? Amy Dench: Inequality. Anything from racial to economic inequality makes me angry. There’s so much downward pressure on people who don’t have as much as others. There’s a lot of discrimination (concerning) issues that really affect their lives on a day-to-day basis. And […]
Messing Law in Red Hook might be considered a “triple A firm” consisting of the team of Aaron Messing, Alessandra Carcaterra Messing, and Alessandra (Ale) Maldonado. Both Aaron Messing and Maldonado attended Fordham Law School but they took very different paths to get there. While Messing was born and raised in Manhattan, Maldonado was born in Peru, grew up in […]
I attended the Cobble Hill Jane’s Walk on a most beautiful May 2, led by volunteers Susan Dresner and Strephen Wing. This is a yearly chance to learn some in-depth history of a neighborhood, and in this particular case, Dresner’s go-to places for food. We met early that Friday near the Bergen Street subway station. Dresner began by explaining that […]
