Celebrating Community
Good Shepherd Services is an organization that helps a lot of young people in Red Hook through various programs today, but it has a history that goes all the way back to the 1940s. The Good Shepherd Services that has a focus on Red Hook as well as the rest of the city was initially incorporated in 1947. It was […]
The 76th Precinct’s monthly community meeting took place Wednesday, January 3. Eleven police officers and eight community members attended the meeting at the Union Street police station despite the impending polar bomb weather advisory. Commanding Officer Megan O’Malley reported on the continuing downward cycle of crime in the neighborhood – down in basically every major index crime category with the exception […]
Brooklyn Workforce Innovations (BWI) will be sponsoring a six-week program with Hurricane Sandy funding for Solar Panel Installation Training and construction. This program, which is slated to start the end of January, is targeted at people who live in Red Hook. Anyone 18 or older can participate, and they will take 15 to 20 people out of the 25 to […]
Jonathon Munez, a Red Hook native and student at South Brooklyn Community High School (SBCHS), traveled to South Africa this summer as a recipient of the Curtis Scholarship. The Curtis Scholarship, conceived and funded by Global Citizen Ambassador and Pearl Jam manager, Kelly Curtis, through the Vitalogy Foundation, is an annual award to mentor and support Curtis Scholars. There […]
“It is a great day for this community,” Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez said at the groundbreaking for the construction of Red Hook East and West. “Here we are in a path to recovery. In that sense, we have to make sure the rebuilding we do is one that is built to last.” The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), along with […]
On Tuesday, August 15, NYC Parks Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Marty Maher, along with elected officials, celebrated the official beginning of construction of the new St. Mary’s Park. The Carroll Gardens park had been closed since 2009 because of MTA work on the subway track above. “Parks are here to celebrate, and the community has a lot to celebrate with the […]
When I was growing up in Red Hook, our family garden was an integral part of our life. Practically everyone in the neighborhood had one. It was pretty much the norm that if you were Italian, there was a garden of some sort in your backyard, side yard, front yard, or even on a piece of purchased property elsewhere. If there […]
The Brooklyn Americana Music Festival (AMF) will take place September 21-24. The first festival was in 2015. It has grown every year and this year will have 60 bands on seven different stages in Red Hook and DUMBO. Jan Bell, founder of the fest, produced her first live music event in DUMBO on a pickup truck stage outside the Between […]
Eugene “Mohammad” Mack passed away on August 10, 2017. Mack was originally from South Carolina and came from a family of landowners. “This a big loss,” said his friend Wally Bazemore. “He was a great family man. He was a tremendous neighbor. He was on tenant patrol for years. It took a lot just to sit out there and practically […]