Big Idea Week is a program that started at PS 307 in Dumbo a couple of years ago. According to its website: “Many students have heard of Twitter but have never met an app developer. Big Idea Week is bridging that gap. For one week, students and mentors from local businesses engage in an exchange of ideas and inspiration. The […]
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Cobble Hill to change forever as LICH becomes skyscrapers, by George Fiala
If Cobble Hill thought losing their hospital was bad – they ain’t seen nothin’ yet. A crew of well dressed professionals representing the Fortis Group, presented what seemed like a take it or leave it proposal for residential development of the former Long Island Hospital (LICH) campus at the annual meeting of the Cobble Hill Association (CHA). They presented two […]
Growing up on a Lehigh Valley Barge, by Halley Bondy
Lehigh Valley Barge #79 is a spectacular site for a brief waterfront visit. Now, try to imagine growing up there. Imagine waking up in the morning to find your house in a different state, hauling buckets of water on board to do your laundry, or transporting your mother to the hospital by sea so that she can give birth […]
Summit Academy banquet a huge success, by George Fiala
The Summit Academy one of Red Hook’s two local Charter Schools. They work to be a college preparatory academy, teaching grades 6 – 12, including special education students. Summit was founded in 2009 by Executive Director Natasha Campbell and is located in the former PS 27 building on Huntington Street. Their first ever awards dinner was held on Saturday, April […]
Man vs. Nature: The Life of a Barge, by Kimberly Gail Price
The Lehigh Valley Barge #79 was built in 1914, and celebrated her 100th birthday last year. She is the last of her kind. The barge was built entirely of long-leaf yellow pine, or Pinus Palustris. Boards cut from these trees are very heavy and will not rot, making them extremely suitable for shipbuilding. The trees mature after 100 to 150 […]
Red Hook History: When graft was “honest” – the story of Coffey Park, by Connor Gaudet
In his folksy 1903 memoir Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, the very skilled ring democrat George Washington Plunkitt eloquently defended the manner in which so many politicians got rich off of taxpayer dollars. He states, “My party’s in power in the city, and it’s goin’ to undertake a lot of public improvements. Well, I’m tipped off, say, that they’re going to […]
Friends of Red Hook Library inaugurates LEGO drive.
The first meeting of the resuscitated Friends of the Red Hook Library was held last Saturday at the library. Our first project is begun. Once a month the library hosts a Lego group. Kids who sign up come in and create all kinds of things out of Legos. Thing is, the library could use more blocks for the kids – […]
Works in progress, by Mark Shames
None of the community or political things that I have been following have reached the next milestone. I will update you anyway. The alternative is to revert to a reverie of spring and hold forth on the rebirth it represents (my wife says that’s what writers do when they have nothing to say). Anyway that’s not me. Since the recent […]
The story behind Van Brunt’s Penninsula Gallery, by Alexandra K. Corbin
Along Van Brunt street there are some interesting gallery spaces. What’s nice for Red Hook is that each one looks and feels quite different. That should come as no small surprise since the directors of each could not be more dissimilar. One of them, Peninsula Art Space, is the newest denizen of what was once an old foodmarket strip. […]
City Comptroller calls Build It Back “a case study in dysfunction”, by George Fiala
In June, 2014, at a meeting at PS 15, Amy Peterson, Mayor de Blasio’s head of the Build It Back program, spoke to residents about the Build It Back program. We wrote at the time: “New York City’s answer to the major damage from Hurricane Sandy was meant to offer millions of dollars of assistance to families and businesses reconstructing […]
In Red Hook we take care of our own, by Carlos Menchaca
Dear Neighbor, It has been almost 30 months since the senior center on Wolcott Street was destroyed by the waters of Super-Storm Sandy. However, the good news is the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is aggressively moving forward with plans to renovate the building next to the Joseph Miccio Community Center to serve as a fully functional senior center […]
Buddy Scotto and Joe Chirico are the new Bob Hope and Bing Crosby of Carroll Gardens.
Buddy Scotto and Joe Chirico are the new Bob Hope and Bing Crosby of Carroll Gardens. You’ve got to watch this great show that aired tonight on the NYC TV channel (25). Watch it online by clicking right here!
Star-Revue wins two awards in state-wide newspaper competition
For one weekend a year the 177 members of the New York State Press Association (NYPA) get together in Saratoga Springs to hone their craft and compete in its Better Newspaper Contest. NYPA is like a chamber of commerce for the newspaper industry. They provide editorial and sales services, as well as lobbying and continuing education. They provide scholarships for […]
