Celebrating Community
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) will spend $15 million to build a new Red Hook branch at 7 Wolcott Street. A Community Board 6 Youth/Human Services & Education Committee meeting on October 23 revealed digital renderings of the forthcoming facility, which will replace the circa-1975 library on the same site. Officials say the demolition will take place in the fall […]
The seventh annual Barnacle Parade took over the streets of Red Hook on the evening of October 29. This year, the homemade neighborhood extravaganza took on the theme “Hook-Lantis, ”reimagining Red Hook as a fully underwater city, where public submarines–with humans and sea creatures alike as co-passengers–stand in for MTA buses. As usual, the event drew a wide range of […]
Summit Academy got good news from the New York State Board of Regents in May. Earlier in the spring, the future of Red Hook’s Summit Academy Charter School (grades six through 12) was unknown, but a new partnership with the Center for Education Innovation (CEI), a self-described “non-profit education organization and recognized leader in advancing meaningful reforms in public education,” […]
The Formula E race on Sunday offered many different activities besides just the chance to watch Formula E cars drive up to 174 mph on the 1.475 mile course. Red Hook’s Brooklyn Cruise Terminal featured one indoor and one outdoor Allianz E-Village with lots of sponsored booths and activities for guests of all ages. Each section within each E-Village was […]
Peninsula Art Space’s current show, “Wildernesses”, marks the 5th collaboration between gallery owner/director Eric Fallen and curator Johnny Mullen, formerly director of Chelsea’s Edward Thorp Gallery. The group show, exploring fragmentation and disorder, features paintings and sculptures in a variety of media from eight artists residing in New York and the surrounding area. See it now until August 18! […]
As online streaming becomes the dominant method of listening to music, the sale of physical units has plummeted with one exception: vinyl records. The once nearly abandoned record has made a surprising comeback as the only growth sector for the music industry, and today is a billion-dollar business with 40 million units sold in 2017. While still a niche market […]
A young fellow named David Rosenberg started off the October CB6 Landmarks and Land Use meeting by professing to be a little nervous. He didn’t expect the full PS 15 auditorium. They came because of two controversial issues on the agenda. Rosenberg’s presentation involved a zoning change request for three lots surrounding the Chase bank on Hamilton Avenue. The petition […]
Red Hook Reporters is a community-based reporting project connecting youth to local leaders and institutions, and provid ing the tools and space needed for teens to tell the stories of their own neighborhood. For more information write info@communityheroes.nyc 909.967.207 Reimagining Warehouses by Shamiyah Gilmore (16) and Joanne Bresilien (18) What’s your story? SG: Our story is about abandoned warehouses and […]
Community Potluck for Creatives De-Construkt Each Sunday of the last month, De-Construkt Studio, a full service creative studio, encourages creatives from the neighborhood to bring their favorite dishes to meet other artists in the area. If talking process of any craft excites you, here are your people. They’re also not opposed to conversations about branding and visual identity, whether personal or for a company. De-Construckt Design has been around […]
The latest ploy by the real-estate lobbying group, Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector, took place in November at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The BQX plan is to have NYC pay for a sleek-looking modern streetcar service along the Brooklyn/Queens waterfront—a waterfront that is in danger of transforming from mixed use to luxury residential development. The BQX would serve this […]