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On July 1, Tanya Chernyak, a former Scholastic book designer, and her husband, Patrick Preziosi, a small press and consignment manager at McNally Jackson, opened a bookshop in Red Hook. Red Hook Books will be a new place to “buy, read and make books.” The couple and their dog, Ralphie, live in the neighborhood and have always dreamt of opening […]
Henry Watkins, a Minister at Calvary Baptist Church, was originally from Borough Park and moved to Red Hook with his mother and sister when he was 13. “It was rough when we first got here,” Watkins said. “We came from a quiet neighborhood, and it was night and day. When we first came out here, you either knew how to […]
For more than a decade, the Democratic establishment has relied on the same warning whenever a progressive candidate threatens its preferred nominee: They are too radical. Too divisive. Their politics might play in a Democratic primary, the argument goes, but they could never survive a general election. The problem for those still making that argument in 2026 is that Democratic […]
