Best Jazz Albums 2024, by George Grella – Red Hook Star-Revue
Dec 17, 2024 · This is just one calendar year, which may be sufficient time in the pop music manufacturing industry to spot a trend, but is a far less meaningful span in music that wrestles with its own history—the old is constantly being renewed and incorporated with ideas from other genres—as jazz does, and that is so free of commercial pressures (unfortunately) that there’s no real popular and ...
November 20, 2024 – Red Hook Star-Revue
Nov 20, 2024 · It smells like harbor, I thought as I walked out to the end of the pier to which the barge now known as the Waterfront Museum was docked. Unmistakable were they, even for someone like me — maybe particularly for someone like me, who’s always lived far enough from the ocean to never get used to its sensory impressions, but […]
Toxic vapors not necessarily bad says Health Dept., by Oscar Fock
Oct 11, 2024 · Parents, community members and state officials gathered in the gymnasium of P.S. 372 — the Children ’ s School — in Gowanus on Thursday, Sept. 19, for a presentation from the state ’ s Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health on the agencies ’ soil vapor intrusion investigation, which began last year.. In September 2023, the state launched a Gowanus-wide ...
The city now wants blue highways. Jim Tampakis has advocated …
Oct 11, 2024 · New York City is remaking the Brooklyn Marine Terminal into a waterfront fit for the 21st century. One plan the city has for the marine terminal is to act as a hub for its “ blue highways” initiative, an effort to move some freight from the streets to the city ’ s waterways. 120,000 trucks pass through the city each day, with many of them going through Red Hook.
village stories – Red Hook Star-Revue
How many have visited our site? Food! How to Celebrate a Swedish Christmas, by Oscar Fock
Moving forward through conflict in Gowanus, an interview with Dr ...
Sep 10, 2024 · Gowanus is a changing neighborhood. From once being an area with mostly light and heavy industries, the Gowanus Canal is now slowly becoming surrounded by residential and mixed-use buildings, a process which has significantly sped up since the rezoning of the area was approved in 2021.
The community shows out at first BMT public workshop, by Oscar …
Oct 11, 2024 · After years of talk and several failed attempts, it seems that the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) will finally get a long-overdue facelift. In May this year, the city traded a container terminal on Staten Island to the Port Authority for 122 acres along the Red Hook waterfront.
Business Improvement District provides “fantastic opportunity” to ...
Dec 17, 2024 · On Nov. 14, the Gowanus Oversight Task Force — a community-based group tracking the 56 commitments that were part of the Gowanus rezoning — convened for the fourth time this year, this time to share with the public information about the Gowanus Business Improvement District (BID) and the city’s plans for green spaces in the neighborhood.
D. Coluccio & Sons - Red Hook Star-Revue
Jun 10, 2020 · There are a few genuine Italian speciality food stores left in New York City. One of them is D. Coluccio & Sons. In what used to be the centre of Little Italy in Brooklyn, D. Coluccio & Sons is sandwiched between Borough Park, Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge.
First BMT meeting a scripted online affair, by Brian Abate
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 ...