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 […]
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 attack of the Chinese mitten crabs, by Oscar Fock
Dec 17, 2024 · On Sept. 15, a driver in Brooklyn was stopped by the New York Police Department after running a red light. In an unexpected turn of events, the officers found 29 Chinese mitten crabs, a crustacean considered one of the world’s most invasive species (it’s number 34 on the Global Invasive Species Database), while searching the vehicle. ...
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. But the changing scenery has not come without difficulties. In the past decade-and-a-half, environmental […]
Residential composting takes big strides throughout the city, by ...
Nov 18, 2024 · On Sept. 15, a driver in Brooklyn was stopped by the New York Police Department after running a red light. In an unexpected turn of events, the officers found 29 Chinese mitten crabs, a crustacean considered one of the world’s most invasive species (it’s number 34 on the Global Invasive Species Database), while searching the vehicle.
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 ...
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.
Lawsuit won’t delay Public Place cleanup, but will they ever break ...
Nov 18, 2024 · Artist rendering of the 2024 Public Place. The plans for Gowanus Green date back about two decades and became a reality in 2008, when the Gowanus Green Development team, a joint venture between Fifth Avenue Committee, The Bluestone Organization, Hudson Companies and Jonathan Rose Companies, won a Request for Proposal issued by the City of …
A Carroll Gardens pizza icon remembered, by Brian Abate
Oct 11, 2024 · Family, friends, and neighbors gathered to mourn Onofrio Gaudioso at Sacred Hearts & St. Stephen Church on September 9. Born in 1941, Gaudioso was remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather, and a true gentleman. Gaudioso and his brother-in-law John Teutonico became the owners of House of Pizza and Calzone 132 Union St. in 1963.