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With endless TikToks promising “a cute little day in Red Hook” and a picturesque ferry ride straight to our doorstep, Red Hook officially seems to be on the map as a weekend destination for Manhattanites. One Red Hooker reportedly even overheard a man in Murray Hill say something akin to, “With this weather, it’s gotta be a Red Hook weekend.” […]
On a Friday in September, walking into Green-Wood Cemetery felt like the precise beginning of fall. I heard what I assumed were ravens squawking in the belltower of the Gothic archway—until I saw lime-green and realized they were parakeets. This was the first sign the cemetery wasn’t what I’d expected. The second came when I heard cheers and the beginning […]
Justin Neely, a multidisciplinary artist, had spent 12 years in the 19th-century warehouse near the end of Van Brunt Street when it was ravaged by a five-alarm fire on Sept. 17 and 18, 2025. For some time, he severed his connection to the building, to Red Hook itself, alienated by not just the loss of such a significant part of […]
A months-long power struggle within the Brooklyn Democratic Party is threatening to drain the party’s finances just weeks before Election Day, raising concerns that the infighting could undermine Democrats’ efforts to reclaim three Republican-held Assembly seats in November. The dispute between outgoing party chair Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn and New Kings Democrats, a reform faction that won enough district leader seats in […]