Celebrating Community
March 20 2020 A week ago about 10% of the people on the trains were wearing masks. Now,10% aren’t wearing masks , and the other 90% are. I’m not sure if the media is having a field day and fear mongering, as they do so well, or if this is indeed a legit reason for us to run inside our […]
It’s hard to breathe right now. This is not what one expected out of a doomsday. Many of us are facing abject boredom punctuated by panic attacks, hours on hold calling various government agencies that are way out of their depth, ever-bloating undereye bags, close quarters, piling laundry and children begging to see their friends. These are the lucky folks […]
Williamsburg resident Carly Quellman, 24, has been feeling socially anxious over the coronavirus pandemic since the beginning of March – before New York City saw a steady increase of COVID-19 cases and deaths. While she is a freelance writer here in the Big Apple, she has family and friends who live on the West Coast and in Australia. Quellman’s immediate […]
The coronavirus has changed everything in New York City. The Red Hook Community Justice Center and the court system are one example. The city has asked the staff at the Red Hook Community Justice Center to vacate their building at 88 Visitation Place, which it will utilize for emergency court operations, according to Red Hook Community Justice Center Project Director […]
Mayor de Blasio along with Dr. Oxiris Barbot (Commissioner of Health of City of New York), Raul Perea-Henze (Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services) and Marco Carrion (Commissioner of the Community Affairs Unit) held a press conference and Q&A on March 11 for community media on the emerging coronavirus. They emphasized that anyone who asks for health care and […]
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 […]