Red Hook Star-Revue – Celebrating Community
September 10, 2024. Red Hook is known for its creative spirit, hardworking communities, and growing art scene. This September, at Coffey Street Studio, the Brooklyn neighborhood becomes home to Picture Day, the directorial debut of actor Levon Hawke. Picture Day focuses on masculinity, family dynamics, and hidden secrets.
People Get Together, by George Fiala – Red Hook Star-Revue
Oct 10, 2024 · People Get Together, by George Fiala. I have this theory which I first thought of about ten years ago that there is a special school for people who run public meetings. I’m not sure if that would be the field of public relations, or government relations, or facilitating, but what they are teaching is how to make people think they are taking ...
News - Red Hook Star-Revue
Sep 10, 2024 · NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) held an informational webinar on August 12 regarding the future of the Columbia Street Piers. Over 120 acres of coastal land comprising the Red Hook Container Terminal, Erie Basin including the Cruise Terminal, Manhattan Beverage, the concrete recycling plant, the Waterfront and Port Authority building, and anyplace else in between were turned over to ...
Red Hook News – Red Hook Star-Revue
Jan 12, 2024 · Red Hook is currently awash in the building of new warehouses. No doubt the biggest is the massive new UPS distribution facility that starts across Valentino Park, extending on the water all the way to the Cruise Terminal. The package delivery company paid $303 million for the property, which most recently was to be the hub of a new tech ...
The community shows out at first BMT public workshop, by Oscar …
6 days ago · The first workshop was held in Red Hook on Saturday, Sept. 28, and although it remains to be seen how much the community ’ s wishes will actually count in the end, Red Hook residents, local business owners and others interested in the future of the New York Harbor made sure that their questions, concerns and wishes would at least be recorded.
Red Hook Star-Revue – Celebrating Community
The Red Hook Civic Association met on March 26 at the Red Hook Recreation Center. The March meeting was the group’s first anniversary. According to Nico Kean, the April meeting will consist of a special celebration with a party and a progress report, and will be held at the Red Hook Coffee Shop on Van Brunt Street.
Politics - Red Hook Star-Revue
Nov 13, 2023 · The Mayor has a plan, by Brian Abate. Last month, Mayor Adams stunned the Red Hook community by unilaterally announcing that the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will be housing asylum seekers, more specifically, 1000 men, many of them relocated from a Manhattan hotel. Red Hook Mutual Aid (RHMA) jumped into action to try and help the new population.
Politics with Howard Graubard: POST ELECTION WRAP ... - Red …
Jan 13, 2024 · The day before election day, when a good number (at least in the context of this year) of the City’s electorate had already cast early votes, I was awakened by a call from my fellow election law practitioner, Ali Najmi, warning of a potential problem in Bay Ridge, where my client, Democrat Justin Brannan, was facing off in a closely-watched race for Council with the politically non-binary ...
This is not Cupid’s arrow, by Joe Enright – Red Hook Star-Revue
Oct 10, 2024 · This is not Cupid’s arrow, by Joe Enright. On a beautiful late summer evening in Windsor Terrace some two hundred people jammed into the Holy Name auditorium just off Prospect Avenue to air their grievances. The sounding board on this occasion was Community Board 7, mandated by the New York City Charter to solicit comments from residents ...
Canon V. Choice, by Kelsey Sobel – Red Hook Star-Revue
Jan 13, 2024 · Canon V. Choice, by Kelsey Sobel. January 13, 2024. As a full time teacher, I spend a lot of time considering the question: what should teenagers be reading in 2023? In modern education speak: canon vs. choice. Increasingly, and dishearteningly, I find today’s youth aren’t reading for pleasure.