Happy Valentine’s Day we have departed, Happy Valentine’s Day for me I am not resentful or cold hearted. You are so special; He doesn’t know that about you. He probably doubts you. I love your smile your silhouettes You’re so kind of a soul We were like children again About seventeen years old, We met many years ago. To reunite […]
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Red Hook today is firmly rooted in Red Hook of the past, by Mary Ann Pietanza
It was barely a few days before Christmas when my son, John reminded me that we had not yet bought fish for our traditional Christmas Eve Fish Fest. I admit, I was dragging my foot about the whole holiday in general since the only surviving patriarch in our family was hospital bound with a stroke – and then, a serious […]
New furniture shop opens on Van Brunt, by Micah B. Rubin
The furniture created by BLKWD, a new furniture shop on Van Brunt Street, personifies the past, present and future of Red Hook. Their designs incorporate an industrial aesthetic that blends polished metal with salvaged (and new) wood and would look as perfect in a workshop as in a sleek private apartment. “We like the industrial look but we wanted to […]
Red Hook gets its own business incubator, by George Fiala
Allison Reeves is an architect who has lived in Red Hook for almost 15 years. Earlier this year she began taking on projects at her home near Coffey Park. After a while she realized that she missed the discipline of working in an office. Taking matters into her own hands, she and her husband, artist Michael Prettyman, have just opened […]
Intercourse is a Pioneerworks romp through current art and science, by George Fiala
One doesn’t generally encounter slick literary magazines in a NYC bodega, but when the bodega is a block away from the publisher, it becomes a possibility. So the other day at the Pioneer Street Supermarket I picked up a copy of Dustin Yellin’s Intercourse magazine. My normal reading habits range from Foreign Affairs to the Daily News, so I’m the […]
Ashley’s law brings justice to prison visits, by Kimberly Gail Price
Ashley was 9 years old on a bus to visit her father in an upstate correctional facility. She was making the 9 hour ride all by herself. When she finally arrived – eager to see her daddy – the facility informed her that the visitation schedule had changed. Ashley was sent back to the bus station, unable to spend precious […]
Beautiful Fall day for Red Hook Harvest Festival, by Kimberly Gail Price
An annual tradition that took a Sandy break returned this past weekend with the Red Hook Community Farm Harvest Fest. A steady stream of people came out to the farm to hear local musicians, watch a pie eating contest, and snap pictures with John Quadrozzi’s goat. Vendors included Kevins, who sold out of their jambalaya very early and local apiaries […]
Red Hook and the 1964 World’s Fair, by Mary Ann Pietanza
You know, if someone had told me back in the sixties while living in Red Hook that the very person responsible for my crossing the highway to avoid the dangerous Hamilton Ave footbridge to get to the other side of the BQE, was actually the same person who gave us all a once-in-a-lifetime and now defunct attraction of all attractions […]
Red Hook loses Two day Music Fest, by George Fiala
In a decision fraught in a bit of mystery, the Escape Music Festival, which was to bring two days of entertainment to the Columbia Waterfront District, at Pier 9a, abruptly pulled out of Red Hook and moved across the channel to Governors Island. This came as somewhat of a surprise to people who attended a recent Community Board 6 meeting […]
One person can make a difference, by Karen Broughton and family
I had many reservations when the Red Hook Star Revue asked me to write this article; but I knew George did not personally know my mother and had only heard of her; so I thought I would write it. Here we go! If I told it all; it would be a book. So let me give you a snippet of […]
100th Birthday Celebration for a Great Smith Street Lady, by John Verrangia, Jr
Sophia “Fay” Liuzzi Verrangia was born on September 17, 1914 in Patterson, NJ which then was just a little town. She came to Smith Street as a young “country girl” bride in 1939 when she married John Verrangia, Sr. who was working as a clerk at a shoe store located at 218 Smith Street. When the owner wanted to retire […]
LENZ IN FOCUS: Justin leads the 76th, by Harrison Neuhaus
“I’m a little out there,” says the Captain. “I’ll just walk up and start talking to people. A lot of times when I’m dressed like this,” pointing to his slacks and dress shirt, “people don’t seem to recognize me… they’ll say hello but I don’t think they put two and two together.” Living in Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, or Red […]
Tony the Sculptor, by Alexandra Corbin
Tony walks with a gait that is unique in this neck of the woods. No slouching stroll to buy a slab of Blueberry Buckle at Baked. Even though his property is next door and even if he has fifty feet to cover between there and his sculpture garden named the ‘Golden Anvil’ – he hurries. In September Antonio Cuonzo will […]