A meeting at Red Hook Initiative (RHI) on October 16 informed Red Hook Residents about the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program and how it could affect them. Local leaders, including Andrea McKnight and Henry Watkins, spoke to the crowd of approximately 35 people. Representatives from District 38 Council Member Alexa Aviles and District 51 Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes also attended. […]

Election season is right around the corner, and New Yorkers will have more than candidates to consider on their ballots. On Nov. 3, voters across the five boroughs will also decide on five proposed amendments to the city charter. The proposals were developed by the Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE), which Mayor Zohran Mamdani created in May to identify ways […]

Throughout Rosette Diaz’s life, she excelled. The elder of two sisters born to immigrant parents, Rosette met and rose to challenges as first-born children so often do. Ultimately, only cancer could overcome her; but, reader, she fought like hell against metastatic breast cancer until September 7, just shy of her 40th birthday, when she passed away holding the hand of […]

A months-long power struggle within the Brooklyn Democratic Party is threatening to drain the party’s finances just weeks before Election Day, raising concerns that the infighting could undermine Democrats’ efforts to reclaim three Republican-held Assembly seats in November. The dispute between outgoing party chair Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn and New Kings Democrats, a reform faction that won enough district leader seats in […]

A forum on how the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) can serve all of Brooklyn—and the city at large—drew a full house at the Sacred Hearts Church in Carroll Gardens on Monday night, Sept. 28. It was rather star-studded, too, at least as far as local celebrities are concerned: Democratic nominee for Congress Brad Lander made an appearance, and a quartet […]

Two people, a 25-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man, were shot on Sunday night opposite the Amazon Fulfillment Center on 55 Bay St. They are both in stable condition. At 11:15 p.m., police from the 76th Precinct responded to a 911 call of two people shot, the woman in the chest and the man in the shoulder. According to the […]

In September of 2025, 25 members of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Task Force gathered alongside staff of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) to vote on the vision plan that was to guide the redevelopment of the waterfront site.  Huddled inside an office building at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT), the task force approved the vision plan with […]

Following another year where the Red Hook pool was closed to open the summer and the recreation center too was closed for a (brief) period in August, concerns have been renewed among some area residents that the city could potentially close the complex completely. But concerns might be overblown, as the 90-year-old pool and rec center are set to undergo […]

Most people would trust a valet to park their car at a hotel or a restaurant. But would you trust a driver you don’t know to park your car on the streets of New York City? What if it meant avoiding an alternate side parking ticket? Rishi Ganesh hopes that you will. He’s the founder of Valet Network, a new […]

I attended Imre Kovacs’ memorial service on Saturday, Aug. 15 at River of God Christian Center with an image of my Imre as an unassuming octogenarian who seemed to be everywhere in the neighborhood—joining protests against the city’s evil plan to gentrify our waterfront, socializing in Red Hook’s interim library that he helped to establish, attending various community events, and […]

For over 16 years I have been leaving copies of this paper every month in the news rack at the top of the stairs of the Red Hook Justice Center. Now-retired Judge Calabrese is a huge fan of the paper, as we are of him. Last month I received an email from a recent Justice Center hire, Andrew Benjamin, with […]

Soil vapor is still leaking into the annex of PS 372 in Gowanus, according to a letter to parents and staff from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Department of Health (DOH) sent out over the Juneteenth holiday weekend. Now, the Gowanus Canal Community Advisory group is seeking answers from the state agency about the […]

The city broke ground on the Red Hook Coastal Resiliency project in September 2025, and now, almost a year later, it’s more disruptive than ever, according to local business owners and residents. On Thursday, Aug. 6, a group of local businesses convened with City Council Member Alexa Avilés and representatives from the New York City Department of Design and Construction […]