By Staff 7/21/06 12:05pm

Protest Turns Out Crowd; D.O.T. Slammed for Inaction

Yesterday, Red Hook residents gathered at the corner of Van Brunt and Wolcott streets, the intersection where Janett Ramos was struck and killed by a van two weeks ago, to protest what organizer John McGettrick called the Department of Transportation’s “indifference bordering on incompetence” regarding traffic in the once-sleepy neighhborhood. Over 125 people showed Read More

By Staff 3:37pm

On the Hook


The New York Times has a dense article today about Red Hook and the competing interests at play there. On the one side, there’s Greg O’Connell, the ex-cop and scourge of crooked politicians who is a proponent of the area’s industrial use and is renovating an old warehouse right on the waterfront Read More