Last night I went to a meeting at the Miccio Center that was about two very important things: 1 – Introducing the ...
The Red Hook Star-Revue began publishing in June 2010. We are the only neighborhood paper serving Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, the Columbia Waterfront District, and Gowanus – some of the most ...
It’s the evening of Dec. 18, 2024. The Brooklyn Marine Terminal task force is meeting for the fourth time, just before the winter holidays. Alexa Avilés, council member for District 38 and vice-chair ...
Gathered inside a conference room inside the Brooklyn Marine Terminal on Monday, Sept. 22, were 25 task force members in charge of the future of New York City’s last working waterfront. The room was ...
Here the journey to Venice begins not with a flight to Marco Polo Airport, but with a memory. A quote from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead  for this viewer came back in full to begin the Brooklyn Museum’s ...
The day after the televised debate with New York City mayoral hopefuls Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo Curtis Sliwa, (this of course was before Mamdani’s victory), it seemed logical to ask people for ...
Members of the Columbia Street Waterfront community announced that they have officially formed the Columbia Street Waterfront Association (CSWA). Their mission is to “to promote the health, vitality, ...
I stepped into the original Fedora, on West 4th and Charles, nearly 20 years ago. I was looking for a place to have a quick drink. Its neon sign drew me to its ivy-covered building, its entrance a few ...
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 ...
The Salvator Mundi Museum of Art is combining art with a great cause with its new exhibition, The Art of Rescue. The exhibition has a unique premise; it highlights the stories of art pieces that were ...
Note: I intended this to be just one piece, but to give former Borough President Howard Golden, whence he came from and where he went, his due turned out, even with heavy editing, to require far too ...
“I don’t think I have to tell anyone in this room what it was like during Superstorm Sandy,” spoke Joy Sinderbrand, of NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority), to an audience of Red Hook Houses ...