2010 The Red Hook Star-Revue 2023

House of Pizza and Calzone, Frankie at F&M Bagels, IKEA, Waterfront Laundry, SBIDC, Elite Fitness, Accardi Hardware, 5 Burro Café, Calexico, Frank Galeano, Fultummy’s, Charles White, Laura Buscaglia, Margaret Palca, Danny Kalb, Jalopy Café, Alma, The General Slocum, Red Hook Boaters, Millbern Travel, Pimental Drycleaners, BWAC, Suite 352 Hair Boutique, Red Hook Films, Union Street Star Theater, Anna Mumford, Rocky Sullivan’s, Bait and Tackle, Moonshine, Cora School for Dance, Liberty Industrial Gases, Bishop Tucker, Phoenix Beverage, Greg O’Connell, Thor Equities, Red Hook Cruise Terminal, imadeanart.com, JJ Burkard, Sugar Lounge, Diego Restaurant, Baked, Jake’s Barbecue Restaurant, M Shanghai String Band, Krista Dragomer, Tiburon, Joe Zito, Josie Rubio, Red Hook Community Garden, Red Hook Ramblers, Brooklyn General, Botta di Vino, PETRA, Lobster Pound, Danielle Vigilante, Jack Lewis, CHIPS, Lisa Cowan, Everbrite Mercantile Co., David Buckel, Robert Painter, Stumptown Cofee Roasters, Miccio Center, Kiki Valentine, Smokey’s Round Up, Lilla, Michael and Pings, Movers Not Shakers, B61, Cool Hand Movers, Caselnova, Michael Sokol, PS 15, Caitlan Cassaro, Peggy WynsMadison, Vince Musacchia, Roy Sloane, Summit Academy, Shapiro’s Corner, Liberty Sunset Garden Center, Dean Haspiel, Shen, Foxy & Winston, Metal & Thread, Union Max, Brooklyn Collective, Uhuru, Gallery Small, Dry Dock Wine and Spirits, Torrey Maldonado, Off the Hook, Jabus Building Corp, Cornell Robbins,

2011

Sal Meglio, Daniel Squadron, Red Hook Streetcar Study, Paris Burlesque Club, Shore Power, Sunny’s, Red Hook VFW, Saipua, Marsha Trattner, Avalon Childcare, Bluebird Midwifery, Emilio’s Auto Restoration, Red Hook Barber and Beauty Salon, The A-Bones, The Good Fork, Visitation Church, Pro Electric, Alex Battles, Craig Hammerman, Marry Ann Massaro, Brooklyn Greenway, The Agnes Humphrey School for Leadership, Carter Kustera, Flickinger Glassworks, Saxelby Cheesemongers, You Showed Me, Alex Battles and the Whisky RebellionMiknic, REK, Pickett Furniture, Bamboo Bike Studio, Lunacy Design, Robin Ha, Red Hook Crit, Seanchai & the Unity Squad, BigSkyBrooklyn.com, The O’Connell Organization, Gallery Small, Red Hook Senior Center, Realty Collective, Anna Mumford, Kidd Yellin, Freebird Books, B & D Heating, Kentler International Drawing Space, Jonathan Ames, Kotobuki Bistro, Father Claudio, Christopher Hrones, Larsen’s Bakery, BQE Enhancement Project; Ledelle Moe, Whistling Wolves, Emily Eagen, Barbe’s, Adam Eisenstat, Hidden Patios, Mission Dolores, Cobble Hill Coffee Shop, Hope and Anchor, Red Hook Fest,

Blind Boy Paxton, Hilary Hawke, Talib Kweli, Portside, Copy Cottage, The Other Side; Marla Duckman, PAVE Academy, Red Hook Neighborhood School; Linda Mariano, Happy Hours Day Care, Cacao Prieto, Pamela

Warren, Esposito’s, Caputo’s, Sahadi’s, Urban Meadow, Urge Overkill, Red Hook Pirate’s Festival, Kevin’s, Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club, Bargemusic, Red Hook Community Farm, Trocom Construction, Ennis Park, Marietta’s Dry Goods Store, Proteus Gowanus, Gowanus Yacht Club, Richard Buckner, Red Hook Raiders, Rob O’Neill, Sara Gonzalez, Velmanette Montgomery, Red Hook Civic Association, Red Hook Star-Revue Music Festival, Jay Tanner, Sal Catucci, American Stevedoring, John Mcgettrick, Hamilton Avenue footbridge, Screwball Spaces, Vinegar Hill House, 204 Sackett Street, PS 15 Flea Market, Lou Pernice, Chris Ward, Nydia Velazquez, Mary Anne Pietanza, Kiki Valentine, 2011 Taste of Red Hook, Ernest Porcelli, Thor Equities, Rottentoof records, residential parking bill, Red Hook Transportation Plan, Participatory Budgeting, Urban Divers, Casa Di Campagne, Bar Bruno, Lucky Gallery, Dog Day Cyclery, Try Rae’s First, Max J. Pollak & Sons Insurance,

2012

Martin Snaric, Matt Graber, Brooklyn Community Foundation, Added Value, Occupy Red Hook, Red Hook Rise, Reg Flower, Carey Monserrate, Red Hook Rec Center, Michael Racioppo, Kimberly Price, Drew Middleton, Rucola, Emma Morcroft, Robert Barnes, Julian Adler, Red Hook Community Justice Center, Phoenix Beverage, Curtis Skinner, Natasha Campbell, Summit Academy, DeFonte’s, Brad Lander, Joan Millman, Zaria Forman, Pilar Montero, PAVE Academy, EPA, Gowanus Canal, Christopher Tsiamis, Patrick Daly School, Spike Lee, Tony Mignone, B61 overcrowding, Olive’s Very Vintage, Valentino Pier, Buschenschank, The Invisible Dog, Jackie Jackson, Fine Fare, BumbleBeesRus, Tyrone Lewis, PS 15, Mary A. Whalen, Red Hook Youth Baseball League, Jill Eisenhard, Tanya Wilson, Red Hook Initiative, Red Hook Crit, Pok Pok, Derrick Barncoat, Stop and Frisk, Candice Sering, Red Hook Crit, Waterfront Museum, Columbia Street Connector, Red Hook Initiative, Steve Levin, Marshal Dohne, David Trimble, Richard Rosenblatt, Gerianne Abriano, Bian McCormick, Tom Fox, Viviana Gordon, Home/ made, April Fools, Phuong Nguyen, Brooklyn Studio Tours, Ana Ocampo,

Ralph Amendola, Red Hook Youth Baseball League, Local 1814 ILA, Naureen Rashid, Erik Dilan, Michael Grimm, Lou Sones, Felix Palacios, Judge Alex Calabrese, Brooklyn Studio Tours, SRB, Gallery Small,Father Claudio, Jeffrey Schiff, Khary Bekka, Sabrina Carter, Bayou n’Brooklyn, King Killer Studios, Wally Bazemore, Red Hook Pride Day, Red Hook Fest, POP Paradigms, Landswan Elam, Brett Taylor, Red Hook Lions Club, Shore Power, Scott Pfaffman, Ray Hall, Mollie Dash, Jenna Weber, toxic sludge, GBX, B77, Kaashiem Palmer, Mother Cabrini mural, Jenna Weber, Gallery Brooklyn, Hannibal Buress, John McGill, Brooklyn Ice House, High-Beam, IBZ zoning, Bigprototype, Pickett Furniture, Constructive Display, RHAP, Deirdre Swords, Ta-Shawn David, Ulli Gruber, Rachel Schapira, Gordon Clay, Tiffiney Davis, Nicky Bananas, Lightstone Group, Mrs. Hart Crane, Gertrude Holzendorm, Red Hook Senior Center, Judith Dailey, Gallery Brooklyn, Dorothy Shields, Lillie Marshall, Frances Brown, Fernand Barbot, Red Hook Summer, Water’s Edge Diner, Teen Chef, Vito Lopez, Family Day, Go See Art in Brooklyn, Mollie Dash, Cora Dance, Anna Christie, Van Brunch Street, Buddy Scotto, Charles Hynes, Kathryn Sennis, Frank Seddio, Sunny and Ralph Balzano, Tyjuan Hill, Pier 11 shed, Peacemaking, Images of Red Hook, PS 15 Flea Market, Dance Theater Etc., Frank Tihocki, Manny Flaherty, Paper Swan, Gowanus BOA, Robbie Giordano, Red Hook Harvest Festival, Taste of Red Hook, Red Hook – A Rare Masterpiece, Hurricane Sandy, Red Hook renews its spirit with a Sunday Jam at Sunny’s, Damage at Red Hook Houses is unprecedented, Jan Bell, Red Hook Slim, Billy Durney, Fairway, Mark’s Pia, Jason Horvath, Nancy Carbone, Pioneer Supermarket, Seersucker, Restore Red Hook, Cecil House, John Burkhard, Cecelia Cacace, Elizabeth Demetriou, Leroy Branch, Dorothy Savitch, Star Theater.

2013

Frances Medina, Gowanus Dolphin, Phaedra Thomas, John Muir, GBX, Brian Honan, Wally Bazemore, GrowNYC, Nydia inauguration, Tufaro Transit, East River Ferry, Bushwick Gospel Singers, Tyquan Carter, Nancy Manter, Long Island College Hospital, John Battis, NYS Nurses Association, East River Blueway, Katie Dean, Court Street Grocers, PJ Hanley’s, Maribel Agosto, Pete Waldman, Shadow, 600 Highwayman, Project Hope, Christine Quinn speaks at the Red Hook Civic Association, Brooklyn Collective, The Vultures after LICH, Moby Dick Rehearsed, SUNY Destroys LICH Residency Program, Bea Byrd, Superfund Primer, Lich is not a priority in SUNY’s Sustainability Plan, Red Hook Fest, Red Hook Prom, Falconworks, Mothers Against Gangs, 100

Works on Paper, Elizabeth Ehrhardt, Prom Queen, John Barnhart, FEMA’s new flood maps, Needless angst over the future of the Miccio Center, Marilyn Gelber celebrated new PS 15 library, Douglas J. Sarno, Natalie Loney, Daniel Wiley, Gowanus CAG, more hours for the library, Carmelo Anthony dedicates new court, CitiBike shortage in South Brooklyn, Martha Bowers, Carroll Gardens dog run, Bob Diamond, Red Hook Urban Farm celebrates six years, Ian Marvy, Lillie Marshall, Red Hook East and West hold joint meeting at the Miccio Center, Lions Club celebrate 20 years, Michelle Williams, Greenway Initiative Gala, Happy Hookers celebrate 100 years, Bill de Blasio, Roy Sloane, Jeff Strabone, Jill Furillo, Judge Demarest, Dean Kesete Thompkins, Karen Broughton, Columbia Waterfront Fall Festival, Fourth Avenue redesign, Tragedy at Centre Mall, Carl McCall, Caflos Menchaca, Night Out Against Crime, Fairway hosts a Fireman’s Cookoff, Posh Tomato, Kempton Bags, Park Bagels, Brooklyn Crab, Hometown, Dry Dock, Bota Di Vino, No Sludge in Red Hook, Carlos gets a little help from his friends, Letters to the EPA, NY Rising Community reconstruction, Captain Schiff bids adieu, Lesley Ware, Banksy, Atelier Roquette, Dance on the Greenway, Down home Hometown opens their doors, Sandy Anniversary, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Champions of Change award to Portside, Red Hook Tool Library in Coffey Park, Mark’s Pizza, Jim Totten, carpenter, Felix Ortiz, Skip Williams – hospital hitman, Elite private school to be built near Red Hook Houses, Gowanus Superfund Record of Decision, Anthony Johnson, Lindsey Donnellon, Extreme Kids and Crew, Bernetha Curry,

Digital Stewards, Remembering Sal Meglio, Surprise Red Hook parade, Alex House, Samora Coles, flood insurance, Pioneer Works, Bridging Gowanus, FROGG, Red Hook Holiday windows, La Bottega, Jenny Belin,

2014

NY Rising, Justin Lenz, BASIS School strictly business, bring fun and commerce to the Revere Sugar Factory land, Rebekah Windmiller, Cora Dance’s Red Hook Lilve, Tera Peterson of Lunacy Design, Jackie Donovan, Susan Saunders of NY Printing, Red Hook meets BASIC at Civic Association meeting, Lee Wellington, City Planning presents transportation study at Miccio, Craig LaCourt exhibit at Hometown,

Columbia Street Merchant Association, LICH controversy continues, PS 676 presents Cinderella, Drill and Play at Miccio, Pathmark, She-Weld, Red Hook Winery, Camila’s Café, jherelle Benn, 76th Precinct Community Council says all is well, Red Hook Trolleys donated to museum, Red Hook Hub, Jessica Colon wins Community Spirit Award, Kilimanjaro Initiative, Phaedra Thomas tells Red Hook West that BASIS threatens local jobs, Judge Carolyn Demarest says she made a mistake letting the state take over LICH, Jay McKnight, Red Hook Superstar, Sheryl Braxton, Eric Adams, Menchaca leads NYCHA meeting at PS 15, Red Hook Volunteers, Jovan Burch, Jim Vogel, Khadijah James, Calling for a stronger Civic Association, Reader contribution from Felicitas Oefelein, Olivia Hockenberry, Real time bus tracker to Red Hook, Red Hook Coalition holds public meeting, Carlos Vogel to create Red Hook theater group, Columbia Street Jiu-Jitsu, Lydia Bellahcene, Shery Nash-Chisholm, Jean Austin, Brooklyn Bridge Realty, Independent Neighborhood Democrats, Dr Richard Becker, CEO of Brooklyn Hospital, comes to 360 Van Brunt Street, Up for Anything performed at Jalopy with Barry Meara, Ben Schneider, Jen Storch, Geoff Wiley, William Robertson, Reg Flowers and Maddie Bouchard, Robert Berrios, Bus Superstar, Celebrating Red Hook, Sandy kills Coffey Park sycamores, Renovation to close Coffey Park for a year, twins for Jalopy owners, Hot Wood Arts, Avlee Greek Kitchen – worthy successor to Joe’s Superette, Coastal Prtection update, Lime shortage affects Steve, portrait of Dustin Yellin, Coffey Park fenced off, Shore Power a year away, Danielle Johnson, Buddy Scotto honored by Independent Neighborhood Democrats, curtain closes on Long Island College Hospital, Red Hook 2024 (a review of Estate 4 promo magazine), Daniel Cruz loses life due in part to late ambulance arrival, Scott Stringer listens to Red Hook complaints, including mold and money shortages. First Marc Jackson cartoon!, Menchaca addresses Precinct Council meeting, we interview Francis D’Angelo, places to view 4th of July fireworks, End of an era – Goltens closes, Ivo Sisic, Dan Zarrilli, Take Back Gowanus challenges Brand Lander’s Shared values, Red Hook Coaliltion finalizes long term community recover plan – blueprint for future disaster coping, Sister Viriginia Ingram honored at New Brown Baptist Church for her own centennial, Tish James on NYCHA downsizing, The Star-Revue speaks to Pete Morales, Mother Cabrini Park receives belated blessing, Battle for Red Hook Library, Spaceworks, the story behind the Clement Garage, Shannon Hummel, Asbestos safety in Public Housing construction, Editorial: For a better library, not a smaller one, Racquetball at Red Hook Park, Shola Olatoye tours Red Hook Houses, RHI jumps on the disaster preparedness bandwagon, Red Hook Farm on the way to recovery, Red Hook Oldtimers Day, Eric Adams comes to box at the Miccio Center, Red Hook Coalition winds down with $479,344 in the bank, Port Authority under fire in Red Hook, Jo Anne Simon, Doug Biviano and Pete Sikora debate in race to replace Joan Millman, Ready Red Hook, Music on Pier 9, PS 15 now a magnet school, Parks apologizes for hasty fencing at Valentino Pier, Pig Island Festival, John McGettrick writes an article for us about Valentino Pier Park, South Brooklyn HS subject of documentary, City balks at Gowanus retention tank idea, Port Authority cancels music fest, BGI holds half-marathon, Buddy Scotto celebrates birthday at the Carroll Gardens Association, Triangle smell, Parks wants to put giant bathroom at Valentino Pier, community objects, Tribe Bicycle opens on Van Brunt, Raaka comes to Red Hook, Remembering Tony Sterling, Intercourse magazine, Felix Ortiz supports new 25 mph speed limit, another Barnacle Parade, Vinnie Marrone promoted to Detective, Red Hook Community Thanksgiving Dinner, Gertrude Dorf, Margaret Roper, Mark’s Pizza debuts new signage, Shared Brooklyn opens, Local Leaders hold Christmas vigil at the Flagpole, StarRevue supports the founding of a new Friends Group for the Red Hook Library, Another year before new Senior Center opens, new Menchaca outreach person, Julian Morales, speaks to Red Hook West Tenant meeting, Lillie announces furry toys from IKEA will be given away for the holidays. Khary Bekka ends the year with an essay on Psychological Seduction. 2015

Containerport in jeopardy?

Menchaca stands up to EDC, Shared, Friends of the Red Hook Library, garbage problem at 135 Richards, Red Hook gentrification, Joan Millman retires, Coffey Park still closed, Red Hook Transportation Study released, Estate 4, Civic Association meeting small but spirited, Steve

Kondaks, Readers respond to Estate 4, Stronger Together, Brooklyn State Company at Sunny’s, Mark Shames, Captain Lenz transferred, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Superfund on schedule, Airbnb in Red Hook, Pile Driving a concern, Andrea McKnight retires from Community Board, Frances D’Angelo passes, Remembering John Burkard, PS 15 exhibit at Hope and Anchor, Dell Cherry scandal, Star-Revue wins newspaper awards, PB voting, Ballfields to close again for lead remediation, Menchaca writes a message to our readers, Red Hook History column debuts, ReStore Red Hook to repurpose itself, Scott Stringer cites dysfunction in Build It Back program, Senior Center still not ready. Karen Blondel walks out of library meeting, also attended by Reg Flowers, Carlos Menchaca, Leroy Branch and Naila Rosario. Earth Day brings generations together at the NYCHA farm, including Judge Calabrese and his father. Summit Academy holds successful banquet. When graft was honest – the story of Coffey Park. Kimberly Price writes about the Lehigh Valley Barge. Falconworks presents spring performances at PS 15. Eric Fallen opens gallery on Van Brunt. Union band with George Fiala on drums plays at Hometown. Dog Day Cyclery opens their doors for the first time. Cobble Hill to change forever as skyscrapers replace LICH. Dance Theatre Etcetera presents 22nd Annual Red Hook Fest. Buddy Scotto honored at Memorial Day Breakfast by Marty Golden. Big Idea Week comes to PS 15. PS 15 raises $9,000 at gala. Pete Morales and Sandy Serrano meet with Carlos Menchaca on status of Senior Center. Julian Morales speaks at Red Hook West Tenant Association meeting. Friends of Red Hook Library holds Lego drive. Cora holds another prom. Mark Shames on politics and zoning. Scarface and Lemon Anderson to highlight Sum-

Street. Civil War photographs on exhibit at Jalopy. Addabo names new CEO. Red Hook History: When the Pointers and the Creekers divided Red Hook. More problems for Red Hook parks (first story by Nathan Weiser, still with the Star-Revue). Red Hook Walks, a street fair on Van Brunt. Red Hook Ballfields a Leaden Mess, StarRevue presents Celebrating Red Hook at IKEA, Sue Ascolese honored at Hope and Anchor, Ray Hall hosts theater at Calvary Church, Molese club looks to the future, The Great Atlantic Basin Mystery (what does EDC have against it), Menchaca casts doubt on nursing home proposal, Menchaca looks to get us a better deal than a $2 million bathroom, Pictures from Family Day, My mom – Dorothy Savarese, A brief history of 360 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook gets its very own Record Store, John McGill Banned, Van Brunt Street Fair brings a truck free afternoon, Alexandros Washburn, Red Hook’s resilience expert, Interview with Beverly Cobin, Red Hook shows up at Borough Hall to give EDC some ferry suggestions, Carlo Vogel and Ben Schneider interview themselves, Will Pathmark survive? Lack of trust at the Gowanus CAG, Laura Eng’s Religious News, Barnacle Parade photos, Michelle Tampakis turns lemon into lemonade, Pizza Moto opens on Hamilton Avenue, Menchaca adds dinner and bingo to Participatory Budgeting at RHI, In Loving Memory of Vince Musacchia, honoring Joan Millman at the Court Street Senior Center, Keeping Carroll Gardens tradition alive at the Mola Club, Gowanus Activist Joseph Alexiou publishes a history of the canal., The Red Hook Glass Bottom Dramatical Players present new play, Ling Gee employee killed by falling tree in Coffey Park, checking out 99 Cent Dreams on Lorraine Street, Red Hook ballfields won’t be finished until 2020, Parks tells us, Remembering Bette Stoltz, by Brad Lander, Made in Brooklyn holiday gifting,

2016

merStage in Coffey Park. Will a nine story nursing home become Pioneer Works new neighbor? Deam Moon appears at Pioneer Works. Forest City Ratner sends forced volunteers to RHI and the Miccio Center. Local churches vandalized. Op Ed by George Fiala: “Our political leaders continue to insist on the importance of a working waterfront – but in fact they do little to support one.”, After 14 months being closed, Coffey Park work finally gets done. Justice Center’s Restitution Crew upgrades the neighborhood. Edward’s Lunch spices up Lorraine

Miniature Golf coming to Red Hook, A conversation with Felix Ortiz, IKEA advertises 99 cent breakfast, $5.99 Meatball Plate, $4.99 Energy Salad, Petition to rename street for Daniel J. DeFonte, Karen Gopee becomes Criminal Court judge, Theatre Uzume, Empowerment Through Basketball – Rebound program, Library to be renovated using community ideas., Red Hook Summit promotes unified resiliency, Miccio Center discussion on flood resiliency, RHAP shares ideas about love, Summit Academy collects clean water for Flint, Michigan, Coltrane tribute at Pioneer Works, Sunny Balzano’s Beautiful Life, Federal Money will modernize and beautify Red Hook Houses, Strong Place for Hope threatened with eviction, BASIS school celebrates their 100th day of