It is likely that Red Hook will be getting a car share option for the first time once we get to the end of the spring or beginning of the summer. According to Eric McClure, the co-chair of CB6’s Transportation Committee, the car share will take a total of 10 parking spaces in Red Hook and 90 total throughout Community […]
Author: Nathan Weiser
Italian couple migrates to Carroll Gardens to bring us a missing Italian specialty, by Mary Anne Pietanza
I remember as a kid that perhaps the next best thing, if not better, to pizza was a calzone. In the neighborhood, House of Pizza and Calzones on Union Street was the place to head to if you were hankering for one. It was large, filled abundantly with ricotta cheese and mozzarella, and ham – except on Fridays in observance […]
Too much grit for the neighbors, by Nathan Weiser
The Red Hook waterfront has been a site of gritty industrial activity for over a century. The neighbors of one lot on Beard Street, however, have had enough. “It seems like they have a lot of clients and tenants,” says David Trimble, who organizes the yearly Red Hook Crit bike race. “I would definitely like to see it cleaned up […]
Still time to catch the Iceberg show at Kentler, by Matt Caprioli
Itty Neuhaus’ show installed at the Kentler Drawing Center. As climate change alters the lines that form our world, artists have responded in a myriad of ways that tend to mimic the (mostly destructive) processes operating on the landscape, but through actions and works that aim to be reparative against this real-time destruction. Itty Neuhaus, the Greenpoint-based artist and art […]
Lenten season begins this month, by Laura Eng
Lent, a solemn period on the Christian liturgical calendar, begins on February 14 and lasts for 40 days, not including Sundays, from Ash Wednesday to Easter. The ashes which are distributed on Ash Wednesday come from the previous year’s Palm Sunday palms which are burned and mixed with holy oil or water. During Ash Wednesday services, the “imposition of […]
Grand NYCHA rebuilding to be done by 2021
According to what residents heard at the Miccio Center, Red Hook East and West will all have all-new roofs, a new heating system for every building, brand new playgrounds, new doors, surveillance cameras and better security access, together with some nice landscaping by the summer of 2021. The money for all of this comes from FEMA. This is money that […]
February culture, by Matt Caprioli
For the first Saturday of February, you can bring your entire family to Mark Morris Dance Group and heat up against the cold. The free event at 3 Lafayette Ave features live music from “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and starts at 3:00 pm. Closer to Red Hook, Sunny’s has a slew of bluegrass musicians performing throughout the month, […]
Red Hook Civic Association takes on major topics
The Red Hook Civic Association met on January 31 at PS 15. Attendees included NCO Officers Damien Clarke and Jonathan Rueda, Red Hook West Tenant Association President Lillie Marshall, Karen Broughton representing Felix Ortiz, and Robert Berrios from Visitation Church. Buses A major topic discussed was the possible return of the B71 bus line. Robert Berrios, Red Hook’s bus expert, […]
Important RH Houses Construction update at the Miccio – tomorrow at 6:30, by Nathan Weiser
On Wednesday, February 7, from 6:30 until 8:00 pm at the Miccio Community Center (110 West 9th Street) NYCHA and the architects of the new designs for Sandy recovery construction will let the community know exactly where the project stands today, the final project design. The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and their construction firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates […]
Growing up on Columbia Street, by Tina Portelli
Editors Note: We published the first half of this story in November. Tina began her tale this way: If you never saw Columbia Street before 1960, you missed a lot. The street is still there; the sidewalks, the street sign, but the stores, the people and the charm are all gone. That strip of avenue is unrecognizable, now lined with […]