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Wednesdays in Red Hook is back!

Today, we’re visiting Captain David Sharp. He lives with his wife Sarah Burd-Sharps on the Lehigh Valley No. 79 barge, which serves not only as their home, but also as the Waterfront Museum, a floating theater, and a community maritime educational space.

Click the link in our bio to read the full article about David and his endeavors keeping the 112-year barge afloat.

✍️: Alice Feigel
📸: Alice Feigel

Wednesdays in Red Hook is back!

Today, we’re visiting Captain David Sharp. He lives with his wife Sarah Burd-Sharps on the Lehigh Valley No. 79 barge, which serves not only as their home, but also as the Waterfront Museum, a floating theater, and a community maritime educational space.

Click the link in our bio to read the full article about David and his endeavors keeping the 112-year barge afloat.

✍️: Alice Feigel
📸: Alice Feigel

Wednesdays in Red Hook is back!

Today, we’re visiting Captain David Sharp. He lives with his wife Sarah Burd-Sharps on the Lehigh Valley No. 79 barge, which serves not only as their home, but also as the Waterfront Museum, a floating theater, and a community maritime educational space.

Click the link in our bio to read the full article about David and his endeavors keeping the 112-year barge afloat.

✍️: Alice Feigel
📸: Alice Feigel

Wednesdays in Red Hook is back!

Today, we’re visiting Captain David Sharp. He lives with his wife Sarah Burd-Sharps on the Lehigh Valley No. 79 barge, which serves not only as their home, but also as the Waterfront Museum, a floating theater, and a community maritime educational space.

Click the link in our bio to read the full article about David and his endeavors keeping the 112-year barge afloat.

✍️: Alice Feigel
📸: Alice Feigel

Wednesdays in Red Hook is back!

Today, we’re visiting Captain David Sharp. He lives with his wife Sarah Burd-Sharps on the Lehigh Valley No. 79 barge, which serves not only as their home, but also as the Waterfront Museum, a floating theater, and a community maritime educational space.

Click the link in our bio to read the full article about David and his endeavors keeping the 112-year barge afloat.

✍️: Alice Feigel
📸: Alice Feigel

The Red Hook Grain Terminal has a storied history. For decades it’s been owned by the Quadrozzi family, who has proposed a variety of new uses for the 104-year building. But its future remains uncertain.

Read what the Quadrozzis have tried to do there over the years, and what the future might hold, via the link in our bio.

✍️: J. Barnes
📸: V. Reichl

The Red Hook Grain Terminal has a storied history. For decades it’s been owned by the Quadrozzi family, who has proposed a variety of new uses for the 104-year building. But its future remains uncertain.

Read what the Quadrozzis have tried to do there over the years, and what the future might hold, via the link in our bio.

✍️: J. Barnes
📸: V. Reichl

“The nature of what we do when we’re dealing with contaminants under the ground inherently, I think, makes residents that live near sites like this scared, worried. These processes are complicated. They take a long time, how to investigate and then decide how you’re going to remediate sites. So I certainly don’t blame the community or neighbors of these sites for being scared and worried and skeptical. But we are experts. This is what we do every day.”

In April, the Star-Revue sat down with Andrew Guglielmi, director of the division of environmental remediation at the DEC, for an exclusive interview about the remediation work at the former Citizens site. We talked about Parcel 4, National Grid, and communicating with neighbors.

Read the full story via the link in our bio.

✍️: Eric Newstrom
📸: Eric Newstrom

Something has been creeping up on Red Hook for decades—scandification. IKEA, the Norwegian Seamen’s Church, LaNoBa, BonBon.

Now, Frø joins the pack.

Located next to Steve’s Key Lime Pie on Van Dyke Street, Frø (which means “seed” in Danish) is an up-and-coming wholesale bakery, single-mindedly serving one product: Danish rye bread.

Meet the founders, sisters Maya and Eva Ebbesen, and learn where you can pick up a delicious loaf or two, via the link in our bio.

✍️: Katherine Rivard
📸: Katherine Rivard: 1; Frø: 2

Something has been creeping up on Red Hook for decades—scandification. IKEA, the Norwegian Seamen’s Church, LaNoBa, BonBon.

Now, Frø joins the pack.

Located next to Steve’s Key Lime Pie on Van Dyke Street, Frø (which means “seed” in Danish) is an up-and-coming wholesale bakery, single-mindedly serving one product: Danish rye bread.

Meet the founders, sisters Maya and Eva Ebbesen, and learn where you can pick up a delicious loaf or two, via the link in our bio.

✍️: Katherine Rivard
📸: Katherine Rivard: 1; Frø: 2

Red Hook Star-Revue Classifieds are here! Whether you’re looking to sell something, buy something, find a job, find a man, send a happy birthday message to a friend, write a haiku, or anything in between—submit it to our Classifieds section. It’s just $5 for a 3-line ad!

Head to our link-in-bio to submit yours now for our June edition!

The Brooklyn Marine Terminal Development Corporation, BMTDC, convened for the first time this year on Wednesday, April 30. 

The meeting, the third since the development corporation was formed last December, remained cordial—for the most part. Sparks began to fly briefly during an exchange when ex-NYCDOT Commissioner Hank Gutman noted that there were several members of the BMT Task Force who opposed the vision plan, and that the public engagement process failed to engage the community.

A group of neighbors from Red Hook and Columbia Street Waterfront District attended in hospital masks with red X’s on them, protesting a BMTDC rule which states that, while the public may attend meetings, they are not allowed to address the board or the EDC.

Read the full story via the link in our bio.

✍️: Eric Newstrom
📸: Eric Newstrom

At the end of April, the cafe DAE on the corner of Smith and Third Streets closed. It is moving to a new location due to building issues, according to owner Carol Song.

During its time in Carroll Gardens, DAE became the surprising target of online vitriol, harassment, and threats.

One time, one of the servers wouldn’t give a male customer her number. Shortly after the incident, Song began receiving harassing emails from the customer. “He made my last two years there like a living hell. Not just for me, but for my whole staff. We were terrified,” explained Song.

Read the full story via the link in our bio.

✍️: @qwony_sue
📸: @qwony_sue

At Brooklyn CB6’s April general meeting, board members raised several concerns about the Flatbush Avenue Bus Priority Plan, which includes new center-running bus lanes, boarding islands and new parking and loading changes.

The plan aims to speed up bus service along Flatbush Avenue, with the second phase currently in construction between State Street and Grand Army Plaza. Some of the qualms were around the plan’s rerouting of the B63 bus, which runs through CB6.

In addition to bus routes discussions, US Rep. Dan Goldman made an appearance to talk about the cleanup of Public Place, and the board said goodbye to Land Use Coordinator Rebecca Kobert.

Read the full story via the link in our bio.

✍️: @ajreportsss

We’re in print. Our debut column in the Red Hook Star-Revue is out now, with spring openings across the neighborhood, including a first look at Trudie’s Tavern, coming to Court Street this month.

Grab a copy wherever you see the Star-Revue.

Illustration by @l_e.tim

We’re in print. Our debut column in the Red Hook Star-Revue is out now, with spring openings across the neighborhood, including a first look at Trudie’s Tavern, coming to Court Street this month.

Grab a copy wherever you see the Star-Revue.

Illustration by @l_e.tim

Meet @bklyn.church! This Mother’s Day, they are handing out flowers to anyone who, for one reason or another, is experiencing loss.

On Saturday, they were at @brooklynhabit preparing for tomorrow.

The Red Hook Star-Revue has learned that NYCHA will move forward with the PACT program for Red Hook West, unlocking federal funds for much-needed improvements at the housing complex.

But the process to get here has been all but transparent, and both NYCHA and Resident Association President Karen Blondel has received criticism for how they have engaged with tenants.

Read the full story via the link in our bio.

✍️: @ajreportsss
📸: Wikimedia Commons

The Red Hook Star-Revue has learned that NYCHA will move forward with the PACT program for Red Hook West, unlocking federal funds for much-needed improvements at the housing complex.

But the process to get here has been all but transparent, and both NYCHA and Resident Association President Karen Blondel has received criticism for how they have engaged with tenants.

Read the full story via the link in our bio.

✍️: @ajreportsss
📸: Wikimedia Commons

The Red Hook Star-Revue has learned that NYCHA will move forward with the PACT program for Red Hook West, unlocking federal funds for much-needed improvements at the housing complex.

But the process to get here has been all but transparent, and both NYCHA and Resident Association President Karen Blondel has received criticism for how they have engaged with tenants.

Read the full story via the link in our bio.

✍️: @ajreportsss
📸: Wikimedia Commons

New issue out soon.