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On April 9, Red Hook West Resident Association President Karen Blondel crashed a canvassing event meant to inform residents about PACT-related risks, disrupting conversations with residents and yelling expletives at an organizer. “Don’t fuck with me, alright, cause I’ll get you barred from this neighborhood,” Blondel said to a young man who showed up to the canvassing hosted by Save […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Walking into Jam’It Bistro in Red Hook on a Monday morning, owner Dawn Skeete is heads-down on a major catering order for the Brooklyn Gardens Elementary School in East New York. She races against the […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get news from the Star-Revue throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On the corner of Columbia and Lorraine Street, the latest and largest affordable housing development in Red Hook is taking shape, yet little is known about it, according to residents we spoke with in […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy At the March meeting, CB6 members faced a dilemma: approve a land use application that would bring more housing to the area, or reject it for not welcoming more affordable units. The board approved the […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy It’s official: residents of Isaacs Houses are staying in the Section 9 public housing model, according to election results from the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). The Manhattan development had three options: keep Section […]
February’s full board meeting opened the floor for top-of-mind issues in the area: immigration enforcement, weather conditions and of course, the Court Street redesign. First up was Council Member Shahana Hanif, who blasted the city and ConEdison for their responses to outages in her district. “What took place here is a crisis,” Hanif said, of the power outages that left […]
The conversion of the publicly owned Brooklyn Marine Terminal and the transformation of Red Hook West from a NYCHA managed property to one leased to and run by private developers bear many similarities. In both cases, public property is either leased or sold to private entities. The PACT program allows NYCHA to lease out its buildings to private housing companies, […]
The Gowanus Oversight Task Force (GOTF), charged with monitoring the city’s commitments towards the area’s 2021 rezoning, recently published a report on the status of several agreements. The commitments were created by Councilmember Brad Lander and Community Board Six as a way to soften the impact of forcibly transforming the mixed-use neighborhood from being somewhat like Red Hook into much […]
In the battle of Court Street, common arguments around the thoroughfare in its former and current conditions include double parking, traffic safety concerns, deliveries and modes of access to the corridor. We were able to obtain a copy of the survey commissioned by Mayor Adams. The survey was part of a report issued by the Deptartment of Transportation. The 81-page […]
While the lawsuit to undo the Court Street redesign is no more, businesses along the 1.3-mile stretch have remained steadfast in their opinions on the road’s new style. Not only is Edward De Freitas the owner of Empire Pest Control on Court near Third Place, but he’s also an avid cyclist. De Freitas shared that he’s a veteran of the […]
Community Board 6’s January meeting continued conversations around humanity’s never-ceasing concern: safety. “We need to make sure that we pass legislation that gives immigrant New Yorkers both legal counsel as well as stop any local or state actors participating in ICE’s actions,” said District 44 New York State Assemblymember Robert Carroll, calling those actions morally and legally “out of bounds.” […]
As Red Hook West considers the federal Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program to revamp the complex, residents in other NYCHA buildings that voted for PACT are sending warnings. Derrick Haynes, a longtime resident of the Manhattanville Houses which officially converted to the Project-Based Section 8 program in December 2024, says that the new program, which outsources renovations and maintenance, […]
The Red Hook Star-Revue is providing an update on the quality of Community Board 6’s website, four months after a first look. In September, we found a website displaying information about “talk of the town” issues: the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, the Gowanus rezoning, petitions for street redesigns, links to contact city agencies, and of course, information regarding the board itself. […]
