Celebrating Community
Red Hook is currently awash in the building of new warehouses. No doubt the biggest is the massive new UPS distribution facility that starts across Valentino Park, extending on the water all the way to the Cruise Terminal. The package delivery company paid $303 million for the property, which most recently was to be the hub of a new tech […]
At the end of last month, a party was held at Sunset Park’s Industry City, where AECOM, the infrastructure firm that put Red Hook subway station in the mouth of the governer, recently rented space. The party was hosted by the former Red Hook Container Terminal CEO, and former Executive Director of the Port Authority (PA), Chris Ward, and most […]
Onetime Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward, who now works for one of the largest infrastructure builders in the world, has been pushing a plan to radically change Southwest Brooklyn since last year. The plan involves replacing the Red Hook Container Terminal, and much of the rest of our working waterfront, with gleaming skyscrapers – more than tripling our local […]
In an incredible overreaction, Kyle Kimball, head of the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC), announced that he was abandoning development of Sunset Park’s South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT), simply because City Councilman Carlos Menchaca didn’t give him what he wanted. SBMT comprises ten blocks along the waterfront in Sunset Park, southwards from 29th Street. It is an intermodal facility, named […]
In a decision fraught in a bit of mystery, the Escape Music Festival, which was to bring two days of entertainment to the Columbia Waterfront District, at Pier 9a, abruptly pulled out of Red Hook and moved across the channel to Governors Island. This came as somewhat of a surprise to people who attended a recent Community Board 6 meeting […]
In a last minute action of the Port Authority (PA), the Escape Music Festival, which was to bring two days of music to the Columbia Waterfront District at the pier, had their PA permit to conduct the festival taken away. Over the weekend, the promoter, Merrit Quirk, was able to move the festival over to Governors Island, so it will […]
We just received a copy of a letter signed by Brad Lander, Joan Millman, Jerry Nadler and Carlos Menchaca regarding the new idea that the Port Authority has. They are renting out parts of the Containerport for disco shows and rock concerts. This is because they are under the gun for subsidizing the Red Hook Containerport LLC, (RHCT), and the […]
Residents of the Columbia Waterfront District were invaded by the booming disco sounds of a dance party coming from Pier 9 on Friday evening, Sept 12. Normally a part of the working waterfront, the Port Authority has recently starting renting out space to music promoters. Tonight’s event was billed as Absolut Night. A press release issued by the vodka company […]
As reported in the Star-Revue and elsewhere, the Port Authority has rented out Pier 9 to a music promoter for the weekend of October 11-12. The promoter hopes to sell 8,000 tickets each day. This has been planned thus far without any oversight from the community or any elected official, The Port Authority can basically do whatever it wants with its […]
One of the big Red Hook stories of 2011 was the removal of Sal Catucci’s American Stevedoring from the Red Hook Containerport. We reported at the time about rumors of unpaid rent, unmet pension fund contributions and moneys owed to local vendors. We heard that the Port Authority gave Catucci an offer he couldn’t refuse – rumors were that he […]