Celebrating Community
Sector C Neighborhood Coordination Officers Class and Jovin hosted the May Build A Block meeting at PS 676. Officers Class and Jovin started the discussion talking about previous neighborhood issues. A main point of concern were the bobcats (construction vehicles) that were parked on Beard Street, next to the Thor Equities site, and taking up parking spaces. The vehicles were […]
Led by Belgian model Elise Crombez and RHI youth jobs developer and event organizer Sheryl Nash-Chisholm, a much-anticipated fashion show for youth came to Red Hook for the very first time. This was the fifth annual Red Hook Today event hosted by Red Hook Labs (133 Imlay Street). In addition to the fashion show there was photography and video on […]
Summit Academy Charter School senior Analeza Edore is a trailblazer for her school as she is the first student athlete who has received an athletic scholarship to college. This Nigerian young woman lives in East New York, spent her first three years of high school at Nazareth Regional High School in East Flatbush, and has spent her final year of […]
The Friends of Firefighters will be having a chili cook-off fundraiser at the Invisible Dog (51 Bergen Street) on Friday, April 27 from 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm. According to Sylvie Brown, who is the marketing and communications officer, this will be their inaugural cook-off event fundraiser and their intention is to make this into an annual event. Friends of […]
Foxy and Winston has been a staple in Red Hook for nearly a decade, but area residents will soon not be able to buy their textiles, stationery, paper goods and accessories anymore. Jane Buck’s store has been on Van Brunt Street across from Fort Defiance for nine years but will be closing on April 30 due to the decline in […]
The Carroll Gardens Association (CGA) is a non-profit housing corporation that manages a number of low-income properties in Red Hook and Carroll Gardens. On March 12 a CGA contingent took a bus up to Albany to lobby our state legislators on various housing issues. “We usually hear from other groups how they do not perform their duties but I have […]
Artist exhibit If you are artist of any kind who lives in the community, you will have a chance to display your skills at the Carroll Gardens Library Auditorium. This crafters’ and artists’ exhibit will be on June 2, 2018, from 1–3:00 pm. Adults of any age, young adults as well as children will have the opportunity to share their […]
The Red Hook Civic Association held their monthly meeting on March 28 at the PS 15. A teacher from BASIS, Robert Barrios, NCO Jonathan Rueda and assistant police captain Ramos and Annette Amendola were some of the people at the meeting. The Thor Equities site on Beard Street was brought up again. John McGettrick, president of the Civic Association, said that there […]
Dorien Williams, who is on the Summit Academy Middle School (27 Huntington Street) basketball team, was recently announced as one of six finalists among junior high school basketball players for the Brooklyn Nets Ultimate All-Star Award presented by Hospital for Special Surgery. Williams and the other five finalists from the tri-state area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) will be […]
The Red Hook Local Leaders hosted a forum in a packed Red Hook Initiative on February 10 so that the community could hear from leaders and brainstorm ways to improve the neighborhood. More than 100 Red Hook residents attended this forum, sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation, Turning the Tide, the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency and 100 Resilient Cities. […]