I saw the Butthole Surfers live once in Austin, Texas. Not too far from the University of Texas where I was a student. I walked to the show with my friend on a blistering hot summer day. We stopped en-route at the gas station on The Drag to get “the juice.” The juice was a Big Gulp – an obscene […]

A “magnificent boondoggle” — that’s how Thomas Flagg of the Army Corps of Engineers described the Red Hook Grain Terminal in 1984. Built in 1922 as part of an extension of the New York State Canal System, the structure has never made back the $2.5 million it cost to build, equivalent to nearly fifty million dollars today, adjusted for inflation. […]

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy New York City’s first-ever Urban Forest Plan, released last month by the Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and a long list of partner agencies, states a commitment to cover 30% of the city […]

Welcome to “Wednesdays in Red Hook,” a new series that gives a close-up look into the hard work, unexpected encounters, and delightfully mundane moments that make up an average day in Red Hook. For our second installment, we’re heading to the water’s edge in Red Hook, where Captain David Sharps and his wife Sarah Burd-Sharps have lived on the Lehigh […]

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is making progress at Public Place. At a March 12 public meeting of the Gowanus Oversight Task Force (GOTF), Andrew Guglielmi, director of the division of environmental remediation at the DEC, announced several new developments in the remediation of the former Citizens manufactured gas plant site, which someday will house the […]

News from the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get the Star-Revue’s newsletters throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Court Street Journal joins the Star-Revue to share the monthly stories behind West Brooklyn’s evolving neighborhoods.  Just when you think winter will never quit, spring arrives and Carroll Gardens earns its name once more. If the […]

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get news from the Star-Revue throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy People who know their history will tell you that April 20 is the birthday of a very bad man, who I will only describe as the Number One Nazi. But coincidentally, back in the […]

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy I was enjoying the wonderful new Battle of Brooklyn exhibit running all year at the Center for Brooklyn History on Pierrepont Street when I heard a familiar voice behind me. “They used to call this […]

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS! Blood is sticky, did you know that? Have you been around blood, blood freed from its bodily vessel, little girl blood, splattered on the walls of an elementary school, bombed on the […]

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Welcome to ‘Wednesdays in Red Hook’, a new series that gives a close-up look into the hard work, unexpected encounters, and delightfully mundane moments that make up an average day in Red Hook. Today we’re […]

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On March 17, Wraptor Restaurant and Bar, located at 358 Columbia Street, hosted its second movie night. A small but enthusiastic group of customers watched Premium Rush while enjoying good food. After starting off behind […]

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Walking into Jam’It Bistro in Red Hook on a Monday morning, owner Dawn Skeete is heads-down on a major catering order for the Brooklyn Gardens Elementary School in East New York. She races against the […]

Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Six months have passed since a fire devastated Red Hook’s artist community. The fire that raged on Sept. 17 and 18 tore through the warehouse at the end of Van Brunt Street, displacing hundreds of […]