I live in Red Hook, a couple blocks from the water, in one of those mammoth brick buildings that used to be a school. When I ...

My partner, Rainer, is German. He came to America at midlife to find himself, which included coming to terms with being gay. I once asked him what he learned about the Holocaust in school. I feared it ...

Punk’s not dread. Back in the ’90s, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon had “Girls invented punk rock, not England” emblazoned on a t-shirt. Photos of her sporting the slogan circulate every so often—I’ve been ...

Inequality. Anything from racial to economic inequality makes me angry. There’s so much downward pressure on people who don’t have as much as others. There’s a lot of discrimination (concerning) ...

It was Ian Marvy’s idea to create an urban farm in the early days of modern Red Hook. The farm has provided an alternative education to hundreds of local kids, volunteer opportunities for many, not to ...

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It’s the evening of Dec. 18, 2024. The Brooklyn Marine Terminal task force is meeting for the fourth time, just before the winter holidays. Alexa Avilés, council member for District 38 and vice-chair ...

“Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: / To make a poet black, and bid him sing!” – Countée Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel” Come Thanksgiving, thoughts naturally turn to family and the communities that ...

Powell was the first and greatest bebop pianist. He was overshadowed by his contemporary Thelonious Monk, who was promoted as the “High Priest of Bebop” even though he wasn’t a bop player. Monk was ...

Who says a jazz band can’t play rock music? George Clinton didn’t quite ask that question on the 1978 Funkadelic track “Who Says a Funk Band Can’t Play Rock?” but it’s a logical implication of the ...

In our July issue we wrote about the concrete recycling plant that temporarily occupies part of the Columbia Street Waterfront District docks. At the time, the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) ...