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On March 25, the price of entry to a luxe wine and hors d’oeuvres party is… a couple of boxes of tampons or pads! Project Pad, an event hosted by the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club, will be held at The Great Room in Carroll Gardens. The purpose: to stock up the New Horizons family homeless shelter in East New York […]
Two and half years have passed since the installation on Beard Street of the first phase of Red Hook’s interim flood protection measures (IFPMs). Delays that have plagued the second phase of the project – which will address vulnerabilities in northwestern Red Hook, near Atlantic Basin – are expected to come to an end this summer. In 2017, New York […]
In December, two public schools in Red Hook, PS 676 and South Brooklyn Community High School (SBCHS), received word that they’d advanced to the second round of the Imagine Schools NYC competition. Out of 231 applicants, 91 survived the first cut. Imagine Schools NYC represents a public-private partnership between the New York City Department of Education (DOE) and two philanthropic […]
If the spirit of Red Hook – its rugged industrial heritage and small-town warmth – were encapsulated as a typeface, what would it look like? Alexandre Noyer, a French illustrator and graphic designer, has an idea. Noyer and his girlfriend visited the neighborhood in November. “We were totally charmed by this part of Brooklyn, our walks on the street and […]
At Community Board 6 on January 30, when representatives from the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and the Department of Transportation showed up in Red Hook to discuss the planned Brooklyn-Queens Connector (BQX), so many neighborhood residents stood up to register their objections that, after a while, it seemed easier to take a poll. How many people opposed […]
Red Hook may be a small seaside village in Brooklyn, but thanks to local art institutions like Pioneer Works and DE-CONSTRUKT, it’s easy to catch painters, sculptors, and writers from around the world on Van Brunt Street. Founded in 1994, apexart is a nonprofit gallery in Tribeca, but Abbie Hebein, its Director of Fellowships and Public Programs, lives in Red […]
The nonprofit world An article in a recent copy of the Villager details some nonprofits that recently received grants from the New York Community Trust. The Trust is a public charity with board members chosen by public figures, including the mayor, judges and heads of institutions such as the Bar Association and Lincoln Center. The Trust was established in 1924 […]
The acronym stands for Previously-Unknown Data-Driven Transformer. PREDATORs are the latest “clever” scheme from real estate developers, like Mr. Dov Hertz. He’s found a way to avoid oversight by using an aggressively boring name for a new idea, calling it a multi-level distribution center (MLD). Hertz just bought the historic Sunset Industrial Park. He’s working to evict all the tenants […]
In late December 2019, the east side of Conover Street between Coffey & Dikeman Streets was sold to the Diamond Development Group (the exception is a 20-foot wide strip at the corner of Coffey Street). The price tag was $8.1 million, with Diamond committing an additional $10 million via a loan from S3 Capital for “development of a condo building.” […]
The event was called The Church: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Kids and adults were involved, and there were three different acts with music (guitar, drums and piano) in between and during each one. “It was more or less looking at the church, what used to happen, comparing it to today, and thinking about how it can be better for the […]
Lerthon Theuma, who lives in Brooklyn, works in advertising at McCann and as a passion project recently did a portrait, with Joan Heo, of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna. After the tragic helicopter crash involving Bryant, his daughter and the seven others, they decided they wanted to do a drawing to honor them. They posted it online two days […]
Love and kindness were definitely in the air when we stopped by Brooklyn’s St. Saviour High School in mid-January, as students excitedly prepared for their Valentine’s Day fundraiser a month early. Members of the school’s National Honor Society and Water Project club wrapped school water bottles with pink, handcrafted “I Heart H2O” labels. The Water Project (TWP) is a non-profit […]
A Manhattan-based organization has the city’s senior citizens ready to tango this Valentine’s Day. Movement Speaks, the core program of Dances For A Variable Population (DVP), offers seniors in low-income communities free sequential dance instruction, followed by a public performance of their original work. It also allows older people to discover their strength – both physical and emotional – and […]
