The city broke ground on the Red Hook Coastal Resiliency project in September 2025, and now, almost a year later, it’s more ...

In some cultures, there’s a belief that death comes not when your heart stops beating, but when you’re forgotten. To remember ...

This is New York City, but today nobody’s rushing. People are lollygagging down the streets while the 95-degree heat ...

I first met Vincent Coppola in 1961 when we were high school freshmen at St. Augustine High School on Park Place in the Slope ...

Welcome to ‘Wednesdays in Red Hook’, a close-up look into the day-to-day life of people in our community, including the hard ...

I think it’s hard to be just a little interested in aliens. Either they don’t register, or they become an obsession. My first ...

Soil vapor is still leaking into the annex of PS 372 in Gowanus, according to a letter to parents and staff from the New York ...

When Victoria Law helped launch NYC Books Through Bars in 1996, her goal was to send a few boxes of books to incarcerated ...

On July 1, Tanya Chernyak, a former Scholastic book designer, and her husband, Patrick Preziosi, a small press and consignment manager at McNally Jackson, opened a bookshop in Red Hook. Red Hook Books ...

It may not be the first place that comes to mind when thinking of interesting areas in New York City, but the neighborhoods in southeast Brooklyn are known as hidden gems by the residents for good ...

Henry Watkins, a Minister at Calvary Baptist Church, was originally from Borough Park and moved to Red Hook with his mother and sister when he was 13. “It was rough when we first got here,” Watkins ...

It’s late morning on May 26, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, standing in front of a posse of New York City media outlets, announces his new “Block by Block” housing plan at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus. He ...