Arts & Culture
Rendering via KPFNYCHA has commissioned architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) to design a resiliency and renewal program for the Red Hook Houses in response to the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. The storm left thousands of Red Hook residents without power and basic necessities for weeks
community
Voting for Participatory Budgeting [/tonight-see-participatory-budgeting-projects-flatbush-midwood/] begins this Saturday, March 25. Below is a list of the 12 project proposals on the ballot for Council Member Carlos Menchaca’s District 38 [http://council.nyc.gov/carlos-menchaca/pb/6/] (Red Hook, Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace). With new online voting [http://council.nyc.
Food & Drink
Tesla Showroom in Red Hook (Photo by cjh51109 via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BD-fJ4TKu4O/?tagged=teslaredhook])The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Thief Nabs Tip-Jar From Fort Greene Cafe. [DNA Info [https://www.dnainfo.
Neighbors
Coronet Gotham, 142 King Street, Red Hook, via Google Maps, circa August 2014 Dyker Heights resident Vasillios Georgiadis, aka William Georgiadis, 64, and his company, Coronet Gotham LLC (“Coronet Gotham”), located at 142 King Street in Red Hook have been charged with insurance fraud, grand larceny, failure to secure workers’
Feature
Neighbors assembled at the Carroll Gardens Association’s Annual Southwest Brooklyn Fall Festival (Photo via carrollgardensassociation.com [http://www.carrollgardensassociation.com/current-campaigns/swbtu/])Formed in 1971, the Carroll Gardens Association (CGA) [http://www.carrollgardensassociation.com/] is a not-for-profit organization that provides affordable housing and assists neighbors and tenants in organizing
Animals
Prospect Park Zoo’s Red Panda via Twitter [https://twitter.com/prospectparkzoo] The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Prospect Park Zoo Steps Up to the #CuteAnimalTweetOff Challenge. [DNA Info [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170126/upper-east-side/
Arts & Culture
Image via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/sunnysredhook/photos/a.285948621570455.1073741828.282871245211526/478055812359734/?type=3&theater] The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities throughout Brooklyn. And a bit of ephemera, too. Quirky Red Hook Bar Sunny’s is Saved Again. [New York Times
Police & Fire
Video via NYPD While shoppers examined paint chips and googled the inventor of the Phillips-head screwdriver [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F._Phillips], four suspects made out with a construction bonanza of high-tech demolition hammers at the Home Depot [http://www.homedepot.com/l/Brooklyn-NY/NY/Brooklyn/11232/1225]
Police & Fire
Image via NYPDPolice are searching for a suspect who was involved in an apartment burglary last month. On Monday, December 12, 2016, at approximately 9:30am, an individual forced open an apartment door in the vicinity of Sullivan Street and Van Brunt Street in Red Hook. The suspect went inside
News
Tyheim Smith. (Photo via Brooklyn DA’s office)An 18-year-old Red Hook teenager was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison for his part in the fatal shooting of a man during a botched robbery attempt in Williamsburg, announced Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. On April 27, 2015,
News
Rendering of Red Hoek Point. (Courtesy: Thor Equities)Brooklyn’s historic industrial waterfront continues its transformation — this time in Red Hook. Red Hoek Point [http://www.redhoekpoint.com/], an 800,000 square foot-plus “tech-complex” is slated to rise on the former site of the Revere Sugar Refinery. As first reported
News
Engine 279 and Ladder 131, located at 252 Lorraine Street (at Smith Street). (Photo: Google Maps)A firefighter has been arrested and charged with selling narcotics in front of his Red Hook firehouse and near a private Brooklyn high school. Daniel Torres, 33, a New York City firefighter with Engine