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On April 9, Red Hook West Resident Association President Karen Blondel crashed a canvassing event meant to inform residents about PACT-related risks, disrupting conversations with residents and yelling expletives at an organizer. “Don’t fuck with me, alright, cause I’ll get you barred from this neighborhood,” Blondel said to a young man who showed up to the canvassing hosted by Save […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Tucked between a supermarket and a café just outside the 45th Street R train stop in Sunset Park sits the modest storefront office of City Council Member Alexa Avilés. From the outside, it blends easily […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Khadijah James (also known as Toni Jones) passed away last month. Her funeral took place at the River of God Christian Center on Wolcott Street, and it was a packed house. Khadijah and I became […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy It was a close one. March 31 was the last day for the public to comment on the scope of the environmental review for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal redevelopment, and into the evening, community members, […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Shovels might soon hit the ground on Gowanus Green, the affordable housing complex on the Gowanus Canal’s western bank. At least according to the consortium of developers behind the project. The developers and the New […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Subscribe to get news from the Star-Revue throughout the month. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy On the corner of Columbia and Lorraine Street, the latest and largest affordable housing development in Red Hook is taking shape, yet little is known about it, according to residents we spoke with in […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy At the March meeting, CB6 members faced a dilemma: approve a land use application that would bring more housing to the area, or reject it for not welcoming more affordable units. The board approved the […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy It’s official: residents of Isaacs Houses are staying in the Section 9 public housing model, according to election results from the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). The Manhattan development had three options: keep Section […]
When privatization comes to public housing, tenants are told to expect repairs, investment, and better living conditions. But what many of us are not told is what we stand to lose. Across the country, RAD/PACT converts traditional Section 9 public housing into project-based Section 8 managed by private companies. These conversions have been found to often weaken tenant protections and […]
This is New York. Not just any city, but the capital of the world. And Brooklyn—our Brooklyn—is its heart. So why are we being asked to settle for something so ordinary? The proposed plan for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal isn’t bold. It isn’t visionary. And for a site of this importance, that’s not just disappointing—it’s unacceptable. What’s on the table […]
For many years Red Hook was lucky to have an active and vibrant Civic Association, run by John McGettrick. It gave us an institution where those interested in our community could come to and discuss whatever good or not-so-good things they wanted to add (or detract) from the neighborhood. Of course, it also gave us a place to vent about […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy I attended the March 11 meeting at Sacred Hearts and St. Stephen Church about the bogus environmental review process sprouting from the NYC Economic Development Corporation’s “Vision Plan” for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal that they […]
Stay in the neighborhood. Red Hook & Gowanus Independent, uncensored local journalism — free to your inbox. No spam · Unsubscribe anytime · Privacy policy Residents of NYCHA’s Elliott-Chelsea and Fulton Houses need to keep up the pressure against the housing authority’s plan to demolish and replace the buildings, several hundred people stressed during a demonstration at Fulton on Saturday, […]
