Celebrating Community
Red Hook has already seen its fair share of transition. The fort that played a pivotal role in the Revolutionary War is long gone, as are the marshlands that surrounded the military structure. For about a hundred years the neighborhood thrived as a key port along the eastern seaboard, until the 1960s when break-bulk shipments gave way to containerization. Today, […]
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, the trite expression goes. I may not be stronger, but I still love putting together this paper every single month. I’ve never actually lived in Red Hook, but I’ve been on its fringes ever since I moved to Boerum Hill in 1983. My very first Red Hook memory was in 1978 when I […]
The Potpourri of faces starts in 2015 and goes through the present, with the most recent photos at the top. These photos are all taken from Star-Revue photo files, some were printed in the paper, others here for the first time. These are just some of the many people that make Red Hook a community. There are too many to […]
The first five years refers to the years 2010-2014. Most of the photos are from Hurricane Sandy and afterwards. The big events are of course Sandy, which invaded at the end of October 2012; the many resiliency meetings that occurred afterwards; the closing (against most community wishes) of Long Island College Hospital; and various local personalities, including politicians Sara Gonzalez, […]