“2 IN LUNDY FAMILY SLAIN IN BURGLARY,” read a front-page headline of The New York Times on September 19, 1975. The victims were the sister and brother-in-law of Frederick William Irving Lundy, the founder of the famed Lundy Brothers Restaurant, and their deaths marked the beginning of the end for the historic restaurant. Lundy’s is no longer a household name […]

International students are increasingly targeted by the Trump Administration. Not only did the the president threaten to shut down Harvard to them, but he suspended visa interviews for all foreigners wishing to apply to any American university. Italy and the United States have a long history of academic collaboration, marked by institutions such as the Italian Academy at the Columbia […]

I am your parenting expert, Mali List Mayer. I am a mom, solopreneur, doggy mama, and homeowner. Learning to juggle all this taught me that my 30+ years of studying productivity and time management was essential to parenting. For over 13 years, I have helped other parents see this by teaching them productivity and time management skills. I love seeing […]

Over the years I have learned that the most important part of publishing a paper is assembling a great writing team. Early on I faced an issue with no writers and I had to write everything myself, which was so terrible I made sure it never happened again. Papers like this one have always been a good training ground for […]

A Red Hook Lion Andrea McKnight Andrea McKnight was originally from Clinton Hill but came to Red Hook 55 years ago after a fire forced her to move, and became a leader in the community along with her husband Jay McKnight. “It’s hard to put into words the awesome place I’ve lived in for the past 55 years,” Andrea McKnight […]

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, […]

Appetizer I stepped into the original Fedora, on West 4th and Charles, nearly 20 years ago. I was looking for a place to have a quick drink. Its neon sign drew me to its ivy-covered building, its entrance a few steps below street level. Inside: red light, a pink portable stereo on the bar next to a glass bowl of […]

My partner, Rainer, is German. He came to America at midlife to find himself, which included coming to terms with being gay. I once asked him what he learned about the Holocaust in school. I feared it might be something like, “Hitler was a great man. It’s too bad — he almost got away with it!” But no, that wasn’t […]

I walked all over Red Hook on a warm, windy day, and asked: What pisses you off? Amy Dench: Inequality. Anything from racial to economic inequality makes me angry. There’s so much downward pressure on people who don’t have as much as others. There’s a lot of discrimination (concerning) issues that really affect their lives on a day-to-day basis. And […]