Torrential rain struck New York City the evening of Wednesday, May 20, causing flooding in all five boroughs. The worst hit were Brooklyn and Queens, according to Floodnet NYC, a monitoring program created in collaboration between CUNY, NYU, and NYC. Some neighborhoods received as much as two inches of rain an hour, causing severe flooding: Hollis, Queens, saw almost four […]

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Modern-day Gowanus sits on polluted land. For over a century, waste material from gas manufacturing and other industrial operations was dumped all over the watershed, where much of it remains today. Settled deep in the […]

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy It was a close one. March 31 was the last day for the public to comment on the scope of the environmental review for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal redevelopment, and into the evening, community members, […]

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Shovels might soon hit the ground on Gowanus Green, the affordable housing complex on the Gowanus Canal’s western bank. At least according to the consortium of developers behind the project. The developers and the New […]

Welcome to the Red Hook Star-Revue NYPD Investigative Encounters Tracker. Since the How Many Stops Act went into effect in the summer of 2024, the NYPD must collect and report data on three levels of investigative encounters (interactions between a police officer and a civilian “for a law enforcement or investigative purpose”). A level one encounter is when police request […]

Responding to a lawsuit claiming that the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) violated the New York State Open Meetings Law in creating the vision plan for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal redevelopment, the city admits for the first time explicitly that the task force—which voted to approve the plan in September of last year—was an advisory body. In a […]

New York’s finest over-police the city’s Black and brown residents, the New York Police Department’s own data shows. In February, the department released its latest batch of statistics on investigative encounters, which are interactions between a police officer and a civilian “for a law enforcement or investigative purpose.” Since 2003, the NYPD has collected data on so-called “level 3” stops—also […]

The former Citizens Gas Works on the western bank of the Gowanus Canal—one of the most polluted sites in all of New York State—is already a jumble of parcels with different owners, remediation plans, and regulatory statuses. Now, a move by the owners and developers of parcel one—the future home of Gowanus Green, a project that includes an affordable housing […]

A lot happened in Gowanus in 2025. The development boom promised by the rezoning kicked off in earnest along both sides of the Gowanus Canal, but new neighbors still wake up many a rainy morning smelling the aftermath of a combined sewer overflow. The Environmental Protection Agency continues to dredge the canal, but some local residents and experts are worried […]

2025 was a year of extensive coverage of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal redevelopment process for the Red Hook Star-Revue. But so much happened that it’s easy to forget some of the twists and turns. So, here is the recap. While the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and then-Mayor Eric Adams began the public engagement phase already in the summer of 2024, […]