Celebrating Community
Back in June, I signed with the Board of Election (BOE) to be a poll worker. I did this because I had heard that fewer older people who are usually poll workers were able work the polls because of the pandemic, and I wanted to directly be behind the scenes of election day assisting in the voting process for this […]
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Disaster Recovery department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a virtual meeting on Thursday about the soil sampling at the Red Hook Houses related to Sandy construction. There was also an update about the two recent gas outages at the Red Hook Houses caused by the construction that has been happening. Joy […]
As the city prepares to move forward with its plans to rezone Gowanus, community members worry about what that will mean for the Gowanus Canal cleanup. According to the environmental impact study produced by the Department of City Planning (DCP) earlier this year, the amount of combined rainwater and sewage that overflows into the canal is projected to increase almost […]
About 50 protestors gathered together on the cold afternoon of Oct. 18, to remember elderly loved ones who had succumbed to COVID-19 and demand a sincere apology from State Governor Andrew Cuomo. The protest occurred outside the Cobble Hill Health Center (CHHC), nearly a week after the governor’s book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” was published. During […]
A couple weeks ago I was surprised to see the name “Carlos Menchaca” pop up on my phone’s Caller ID. Menchaca has been representing Red Hook in the City Council for the past seven years. During all of that time I have been writing about Red Hook in this newspaper. We’ve never socialized, despite my invitations for dinner to talk […]
This is a question that may sound meaningless, but it is not so for Swedish (or Scandinavian as well) handling of the pandemic. Since the beginning of the outbreak, Sweden has not imposed any lockdown as well as any mandatory mask-wearing, which is why roughly 84.7% of people do not do it at all, according to the german site Statista. […]
Red Hook now has a new and modern dance studio that will offer instruction in an array of different styles and mediums. On September 26, World Arts East Red Hook officially opened its doors with an open house that included a variety of dance classes. World Arts East takes up the entire spacious second floor of 127 King Street and […]
The Brooklyn Style Foundation is organizing their very first Fashion Accessories Design Competition where contestants will create a fashion accessory that solves a problem relating to our current situation. This contest is open to high school students all around the country. The impetus to have a competition like this one was partly because of everything that the country is going […]
Na Lakan Masego is a young adult who grew up in Red Hook and has long been a passionate activist for racial justice. He graduated from South Brooklyn Community High school in 2018. The death of George Floyd as a result of police brutality pushed his activism up a notch and led to him start his own group, calling it […]
So We connected Rethink who we’d like to partner with in the future. They were parking their food truck in front of the red hook library providing free meals but that has ceased once school began. Their truck broke down which was the only reason the truck wasn’t there, however my contact who works there showed up. Not sure if, […]