The story of the Revolutionary War redoubt, Fort Defiance has been told in the pages of this newspaper before, so while it isn’t necessarily worth retelling the story of the role it played in the early days of the Revolution, it might be worth visiting its more recent past – that is, the curious tale of it’s debated location. Van […]
Tag: Red Hook
Welcome to Red Hook’s Music and Art Festival, by Kimberly Gail Price
Note – Celebrating Red Hook 2015 will take place on Saturday, July 25th behind IKEA in Red Hook. All are invited – Free Admission! Like many communities, Red Hook is defined by the people who have invested themselves and planted roots. In the case of Red Hook, which has faced threatened eminent domain in the 1960’s, a crack epidemic in […]
Celebrating Red Hook Preview
Here’s the site map, with the list of participants. Coming up this Saturday at IKEA!
Opinion: Trains and boats and Nursing Homes, by George Fiala
Our Councilmember Carlos Menchaca made the news today as his office plans to draft a bill banning all tourist helicopter flights from NYC. This is an issue that has a small but noisy constituency, mainly the people in Battery Park City, Brooklyn Heights and Red Hook that are directly affected by the noise of the helicopters. The copters offer a birds-eye view […]
Red Hook History: When the Pointers & the Creekers divided Red Hook, by Connor Eugene Gaudet
During much of the 19th century, most of Red Hook east of Dwight Street was basically underwater. Even while they built up the criss-crossing grid of streets, the lots between graded roads were dominated by marshes and tidal pools. To fill it in, the owner, William Beard, leased it out to “carters,” who would pick up people’s garbage and the […]
The story behind Van Brunt’s Penninsula Gallery, by Alexandra K. Corbin
Along Van Brunt street there are some interesting gallery spaces. What’s nice for Red Hook is that each one looks and feels quite different. That should come as no small surprise since the directors of each could not be more dissimilar. One of them, Peninsula Art Space, is the newest denizen of what was once an old foodmarket strip. […]
May 15 Pirate’s Ball to raise funds for Waterfront Museum repairs
The Lehigh Valley Barge #79, home to the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, will be towed upstream near Albany this summer for necessary inspection and repairs. But before the Barge #79 heads upriver for dry dock, the Museum will be throwing the 2nd annual PIRATE BALL to help finance the expedition and repairs. Shortly after Hurricane Sandy, the US […]
Message from Menchaca, by Carlos Menchaca, City Councilman, 38th District
I would like to invite you to our presentation on Sunday, April 12 at 2 pm at Sunset Park High School and discuss the work that we did together this past year and look at how we can move forward. Over the last year–in District 38–we have done things a little differently. Together, we have worked up the nerve to […]
City Planning studies Red Hook streets, by George Fiala
Most everyone knows it’s a little tough to get to Red Hook. People who live here know that without a car and can take a while to get to work. At the same time, it is also true that Red Hook’s isolation has been a factor in its evolution into an eccentric enclave, distinct from the surrounding neighborhoods. Things are […]
Our Sandy memories – Kimberly Gail Price & George Fiala
The second anniversary of Superstorm Sandy is just about upon us. Many of our readers are intimately and painfully aware of these images. We are grateful for all the recovery work that has occurred in the past two years, and all that continues. We share these photos with all our readers in mind. – George & Kimberly