Celebrating Community
There have been a lot of cases in Red Hook where the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has failed to make repairs in a timely matter. However, Michael Eaddy, a longtime resident at 453 Columbia St., shared a positive experience he had with NYCHA. Though Eaddy originally grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, he had family living on Lorraine St. which […]
NYC Parks and Recreation held a breast cancer survivor walk which began at the Red Hook Recreation Center on 155 Bay Street on Oct. 27. The event included speeches from survivors and community leaders. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The event was held in the Park’s facility to bring awareness and make sure that both men and women are […]
Red Hook’s Jacqui Painter has been helping Red Hook’s vulnerable population out in a variety of ways and it all started due to her connection with the elderly. Painter, who is from Red Hook, has been working with the Red Hook Senior Center for the last four years and they were her inspiration to start the mutual aid group that […]
According to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), 6,290 individuals live in the Red Hook Houses, Brooklyn’s largest public housing development. This number accounts for every tenant whose name appears on one of the leases tied to the development’s 2,891 units. On the other hand, the most recent census data, which comes from the 2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS), […]
Any New Yorker who glances at the local newspapers knows something of the major inconveniences and outright horrors experienced by residents of the misgoverned and cash-strapped New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in recent years, but sometimes a visual aid helps. It’s one thing to read about a corroded pipe bursting; seeing the veritable waterfall gush – nonstop, for hours […]
Hope you are well. Reaching out as I am so sad to say that after 12 years of personal financial contributions and countless hours of labor all provided by my wife and myself to transform this abandon lot in Red Hook, Brooklyn leveled in one morning (video on IG account). With out any warning, contact or heads up NYCHA rolled over all our hard […]
I’m happy to be able to start off this column by cheering some neighborhood heroes on a hard-fought victory. Last year I wrote about the plans of an investor to build a huge apartment building over where the Chase Bank is on Hamilton Avenue. I called it a ridiculous idea, based upon their presentation at the community board. In addition […]
On February 13, at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) held a public hearing regarding an amendment to its annual plan for 2019. Dated December 27, 2018, the Draft Significant Amendment to the Annual PHA Plan for Fiscal Year 2019 outlines NYCHA’s approach to the new income limit requirements passed down from the […]
City Planning’s February 6th event to show the public the progress of their Gowanus rezoning plan turned into a kerfluffle when the 5th Avenue Committee sent Red Hook’s Karen Blondel into the PS 32 auditorium with chairs and a megaphone. “After two years of community engagement in this process, the City of New York continues to exclude any commitments to […]
Julián Castro, the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) between 2014 and 2017, declared his presidential candidacy for 2020 on January 12, joining a rapidly growing field of indistinguishable centrist losers who’ll spend the next two years masquerading as bold progressives. His speech made use of Obama-style platitudes (“Brainpower is the new currency of success!”) while highlighting […]