*Alexa Tietjen Dornagon is the founder and editor of Court Street Journal, a blog exploring the vibrant people, places and culture of West Brooklyn. CSJ is about life in progress, told through original reporting and illustration.*
Among Alice's estimable experience in marketing, publishing and communications, she also lists these special life events:
PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS GIRL SCOUT GOLD AWARD 2007 DID STAND-UP ONCE 2019 LIVED IN FRANCE FOR 3 MONTHS March-May 2023
this is her website https://alicefeigel.com/
Raanan Geberer grew up in the Bronx, went to the Bronx High School of Science, and currently lives in Chelsea with his wife Rhea and his cat Bonnie. He's a semi-retired journalist whose most recent job was as managing editor for the revived Brooklyn Daily Eagle and who still writes a local history column for the Straus chain of weekly newspapers in Manhattan. He graduated SUNY Binghamton (B.A.) and Boston University's School of Communications (M.S.J.). Aside from writing, music is his main hobby, and he plays several instruments.
Save Section 9 is a coalition of public housing tenants that advocates for the sustainable and resilient rehabilitation of Section 9 housing, America's only truly affordable housing stock. We educate fellow residents and lobby for adoption of our federal solutions to the nation-wide housing shortage crisis.
Jack Whitman has been a reporter for The Daily Catch in the other Red Hook. Born in Middletown, Jack grew up in the Hudson Valley. He graduated from Marist College in Poughkeepsie in June 2024 with a degree in political science and a minor in cinema studies.
Jack values local journalism and seeks to build a sense of community through his work. Outside of reporting, Jack is an avid reader who enjoys free time with friends and his cat Marceline.
He is concentrating on writing about politics for the Red Hook Star-Revue. He now lives in Bushwick.
Victor Bockris is an English-born, U.S.-based author, primarily of biographies of artists, writers, and musicians.
He has written about Lou Reed (and the Velvet Underground), Andy Warhol, Keith Richards, William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Blondie, Patti Smith, and Muhammad Ali. He helped write the autobiographies of John Cale[1] and Bebe Buell.[2]
Bockris' book Beat Punks explores the relationship between artistic bohemians of the 1950s (the Beats) and the 1970s (the Punk rockers).[3] This is a theme he is developing in his memoir, In Search of the Magic Universe.
