It’s just past 8 a.m. on a rainy Thursday morning in Sunset Park. City Council Member Alexa Avilés finds herself in a position not unfamiliar to most New Yorkers: rushing out the door, preparing for an early meeting while taking calls with her daughter’s school, and racing to make the morning train. While City Council members are often among the […]

Wally Bazemore has been invested in the Red Hook community for his whole life. He has been a big part of Red Hook Groups Against Garbage Sites (GAGS), worked with local youth, helped get PAVE Instutite to the neighborhood, fought for a local bank, and been a general all around leader from before, during and since Sandy. Bazemore’s family moved […]