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The occasion being the first urban farm at a NYC housing project. This speech was given Tuesday afternoon, June 18th. The farm is next to 6 Wolcott Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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A meeting at Red Hook Initiative (RHI) on October 16 informed Red Hook Residents about the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program and how it could affect them. Local leaders, including Andrea McKnight and Henry Watkins, spoke to the crowd of approximately 35 people. Representatives from District 38 Council Member Alexa Aviles and District 51 Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes also attended.
Welcome to ‘Wednesdays in Red Hook’, a close-up look into the day-to-day life of people in our community, including the hard work, unexpected encounters, and delightfully mundane moments that make up an average Wednesday in Red Hook. Soraya Shah is the owner of Fiber Content Studio in Columbia Street Waterfront, where they design and weave textiles on computerized looms for
Is it possible for the best film at this year’s New York Film Festival to be an 8-minute short? There’s a kind of perfect, resonant humanism in South of Tehran, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s brief portrait of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, that feels unique from so much else at this year’s event. And I say that knowing that NAZA, the Israeli
Election season is right around the corner, and New Yorkers will have more than candidates to consider on their ballots. On Nov. 3, voters across the five boroughs will also decide on five proposed amendments to the city charter. The proposals were developed by the Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE), which Mayor Zohran Mamdani created in May to identify ways