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Watching the President speak about China and the tariff/trade war he initiated against China is exhausting. One day he says a deal is in the works and the stock market soars. The next day he tweets something offensive to Chinese sensibilities, adds a threat of new tariffs on more Chinese goods, and the market tanks. Scary headlines follow. A […]
The big take-away from the 166th annual convention of the NY Press Association is that weekly and monthly print newspapers are far from dead. Kevin Slimp, a newspaper consultant and technology trainer, gave that message at his two-day seminar sessions. Slimp travels the country advising newspapers and through both polling and hands-on observation has seen the upturn. “Readers love a […]
Last Thursday I sat through almost three hours of a city process that will force permanent, sudden transformation on a neighborhood that has undergone only incremental change since the Dutch first showed up in Brooklyn. The very next night I sat through two hours of something quite similar, albeit on a smaller scale. The one constant in both cases was […]
The thermometer read 11 degrees at 7:05 pm, when the January meeting of the Red Hook Civic Association began in the PS 15 auditorium. A rather large crowd came to hear Gordon Jackson of CORE talk about the new homeless shelter that suddenly took over the Look Hotel on Seabring Street last December. As of the 30th, there were […]
Tiki Barber, who was a great running back for the New York Giants, and Jenny Simpson, who represented USA at the last three summer Olympics, graced the PS 676 gym floor on January 29. The New York Road Runners and New Balance partnered to give away brand new running sneakers to the 100 kids in grades 1-5. The Road Runners […]
Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group (CAG) members received updates from government and city agencies at the general monthly meeting, held November 27. The biggest surprise involved a last minute request by the NYC DEP to substitute a giant tunnel, instead of the planned sewage retention tanks ordered by the EPA, to capture raw sewage that now is dumped into the […]
The Rockaway Post Theatre Company presented an exciting production of Arthur Miller’s play A View From the Bridge on Saturday evening, October 6th. The company is located in Fort Tilden, an old historic Army installation between Riis Park & Breezy Point in the Rockaways. This whole area is now part of Gateway National Park along with Floyd Bennett Field which was a […]
On Friday, July 13, one day before the second Formula E race in the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, Argo Group, who sponsors the DRAGON team, presented a $10,000 check for tri-state area robotics teams (high schools). Supervisors and students were on hand from Farmingdale High in Long Island and George Westinghouse High in Brooklyn. The contribution will be split up among […]
The Move From Manhattan “I can’t believe that was my life,” Francesca Van Horne says in the same light tone she used to describe her recent career changes. But the topic is anything but light. Francesca is a talented actor, writer, producer, and director. She’s a mother. She’s an active member of her local community, this community. She does it […]
At a time when community policing is taking off throughout the city and Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCO’s) have been making themselves available throughout the Red Hook Community, the Red Hook Initiative (RHI) has issued a report condemning local police for being a root cause of violence in Red Hook. RHI’S Real Rite Anti-Violence Research Group, a group that includes Tyneisha […]
Back in June 2010, when I started this paper, I didn’t have any experience with politicians. I didn’t even think I’d ever report on politics. I kind of thought local politics was boring. However, after Carlos Menchaca became our unexpected councilman, I realized that it was my responsibility as a publisher to take it all seriously. So I began paying […]
Approximately 15 local residents met with local leaders and officers of the 76th Precinct at 191 Union St., where they voiced their frustration over a lack of parking spaces–especially regarding the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Carshare program—and what they considered to be the reckless use of Tesla cars. Locals meet the police the first Wednesday of every month at the […]
Sarah Matusek and Emily Kluver walked off with the top prizes for feature writing, in the 2017 NY State Press Association Better Newspaper contest. The winners were announced at their spring convention in Albany. Sarah won top honors for her front page story about Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle. Wall’s began her professional writing career in the 1970’s […]
