One of the most contentious issues Red Hook has faced in some time was an EPA proposal to build a Contained Disposal Facility (CDF) as part of the cleanup of the Gowanus Canal. The CDF would take dredged materials, detoxify them, and create landfill, adding ten acres to the property of the Gowanus Bay Terminal. The EPA stated from the […]
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Carlos Menchaca’s sophisticated sweep to power, by George Fiala
Carlos Menchaca accomplished a rare political feat on September 10 – he defeated an incumbent, Sara Gonzalez. He won by over 1200 votes out of a total of a bit more than 7,000. He won not only Red Hook and Windsor Terrace, two neighborhoods with which he has close ties, but Sunset Park, Gonzalez’s home turf. Menchaca’s resounding victory surprised […]
A RED HOOK MANIFESTO, by the Red Hook Star-Revue
The other day, we dropped in on a meeting of a committee formed to plan the dispersal of $3 million of state funds designated to our community by NY State. One of the results of the disaster that was last year’s hurricane has been the formulation of many committees to figure out how our community (and others) become more ‘resilient’ […]
De Blasio announces newest and greatest SUNY/LICH court order yet, by George Fiala
A bit after one pm, on the 6th of September, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio stepped up to the makeshift podium across from Long Island College Hospital and greeted his LICH supporters. The group, made up of employees, former patients, local residents and politicians, and a press corps that grows bigger each week, meet across from the hospital on the […]
Why vote for Menchaca/Why vote for Gonzalez, by the candidates for DC 38 City Council
Carlos Menchaca asks for your vote (for Sara Gonzales see below) I’m running for City Council in the 38th district which includes our very own Red Hook. As a resident of this neighborhood, it’s time we elect a visible and vocal leader who will fight for every member of our community. I want to be your next Councilman. Our district […]
Fine Fare to reopen soon, by Camille Daniels
Since two weeks after super storm Sandy devastated coastal communities, Fine Fare foods has had its doors closed. But in the next couple of months they’re promising a new return with some of the old store mixed in with new products, a new interior, and likely a new distributor. Open and serving Red Hook for some seven years, owner Damien […]
Star-Revue Primary Endorsements
For Mayor the Star-Revue endorses Bill de Blasio. We like Bill for a couple of reasons. Bill de Blasio has been a friend to the neighborhood of Red Hook, as well as all of Brooklyn as a whole. He is from the area, having represented the 39th District as City Councilman until his election as Public Advocate in 2009. His […]
Carl McCall’s Ivory Tower, by George Fiala
As State Senator, H. Carl McCall led a community protest against the threatened closing of Harlem’s Sydenham Hospital. The 1976 protest was necessary, as he said at the time, because “the community would not allow the policy of ‘municipal shrinkage’ to shrink our community.” Today, McCall, as Chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees, is leading a nasty battle to shutter […]
A legal and moral responsibility, by Hon. Carolyn Demarest
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“A Legal and Moral Responsibility” to set LICH right, by George Fiala
August 20 – In a completely unexpected court ruling, the Judge who originally gave Long Island College Hospital to SUNY Downstate, today took it back. State Supreme Court Judge Carolyn DeMarest, appointed by governor Mario Cuomo in 1990, signed an eight page order detailing all the reasons that SUNY Downstate did not live up to their promises when she signed […]
The Beginnings of Normalcy at LICH? by George Fiala
Just back from my daily walk to LICH. I first went to the ER, where a friendly guard, sitting inside at the entranceway, smiled nicely as I walked in. There was absolutely nobody in the waiting room, at least as far as guards or patients. . There were two people at the admitting window. One was signing in a mother […]
SUNY Remains Defiant, by George Fiala
Friday evening, representatives from the nurse’s union seemed somewhat hopeful that Judge Baynes’ order regarding LICH would be taken a bit more seriously than his previous rulings. Staff was in a good mood, but wary. It seems the wariness was fully justified. As of this writing, SUNY doesn’t seem to be abiding by the direct court order at all. This […]
LICH wins in court yet again, by George Fiala
Last Friday, Judge Johnny L. Baynes ended a week of court hearings with lawyers from SUNY Downstate, The Dept of Health, the Trustees of the State University of NY, Nirav Shah, MD, in his capacity as Commission of the Board of Health, and John Williams – the defendants, and the NYS Nurses Association, 1199 SEIU, Concerned Physicians of LICH, and […]
