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, […]

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 […]

New York Democrat leaders hit a roadblock in their gerrymandering efforts on Monday, March 2, when the US Supreme court struck down their attempt to redistrict congressional district 11. District 10 Incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman is now officially set to face former city comptroller Brad Lander on June 23, rather than Republican Nicole Malliotakis, who he would have been up […]

February’s full board meeting opened the floor for top-of-mind issues in the area: immigration enforcement, weather conditions and of course, the Court Street redesign. First up was Council Member Shahana Hanif, who blasted the city and ConEdison for their responses to outages in her district. “What took place here is a crisis,” Hanif said, of the power outages that left […]

Welcome to the Red Hook Star-Revue NYPD Investigative Encounters Tracker. Since the How Many Stops Act went into effect in the summer of 2024, the NYPD must collect and report data on three levels of investigative encounters (interactions between a police officer and a civilian “for a law enforcement or investigative purpose”). A level one encounter is when police request […]

Responding to a lawsuit claiming that the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) violated the New York State Open Meetings Law in creating the vision plan for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal redevelopment, the city admits for the first time explicitly that the task force—which voted to approve the plan in September of last year—was an advisory body. In a […]