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Welcome to ‘Wednesdays in Red Hook’, a close-up look into the day-to-day life of people in our community, including the hard work, unexpected encounters, and delightfully mundane moments that make up an average Wednesday in Red Hook. Soraya Shah is the owner of Fiber Content Studio in Columbia Street Waterfront, where they design and weave textiles on computerized looms for […]
Is it possible for the best film at this year’s New York Film Festival to be an 8-minute short? There’s a kind of perfect, resonant humanism in South of Tehran, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s brief portrait of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, that feels unique from so much else at this year’s event. And I say that knowing that NAZA, the Israeli […]
Election season is right around the corner, and New Yorkers will have more than candidates to consider on their ballots. On Nov. 3, voters across the five boroughs will also decide on five proposed amendments to the city charter. The proposals were developed by the Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE), which Mayor Zohran Mamdani created in May to identify ways […]
People of Red Hook column, October 2026 Last month’s column, commemorating the 25th anniversary of one very bad day in September, was about sad fear. This month’s column, evoking lighter memories of little ghosts and goblins bouncing through the streets swinging bags full of candy, is all about fun fear. In honor of Halloween I decided to ask people if […]
Throughout Rosette Diaz’s life, she excelled. The elder of two sisters born to immigrant parents, Rosette met and rose to challenges as first-born children so often do. Ultimately, only cancer could overcome her; but, reader, she fought like hell against metastatic breast cancer until September 7, just shy of her 40th birthday, when she passed away holding the hand of […]
The Uninvited (1944) For the haunted house genre, this might be the first that doesn’t veer into B-movie territory. It’s not going to make you jump, squirm, or give you any Halloween costume ideas, but it has a memorable, eerie atmosphere. Two siblings purchase a house on the coast only to get swept up in its haunted and tragic past. […]
A courier wearing black Adidas Sambas, black cut-off shorts, and a black long sleeve t-shirt pulled up in front of 240 Huntington St. and hopped off his empty cargo bike. It was just after 8 a.m. on a Sunday when he entered Brooklyn Granary & Mill, retrieved a giant brown paper bag, and, after placing it securely within a canvas […]
Frank Morales opened F & M Cafe on Van Brunt Street about 21 years ago. As the owner, it was hard for him to go on vacation while the business remained open. “I tried to leave the place open without me … and it didn’t work … too many complaints,” Morales explained. After almost 15 years of limited time off, […]