New York’s Most Popular Writing Method You’ve Never Heard Of
WEBMay 11, 2018 · Even if you have zero interest in writing, you’ve probably seen a cab-yellow newsstand of catalogs for Gotham Writers Workshop, or the lime green advertisements for Sackett Street Writers Workshop.Since 2002, Sackett Street has worked with over 3,500 writers, and Gotham Writers (founded in 1993) currently averages 2,800 New Yorkers a year with their in-person classes.
Red Hook Mourns William Robertson, by Brett Yates, photos by …
WEBOct 4, 2018 · On September 24, friends and neighbors gathered outside the Brooklyn Ice House at 318 Van Brunt Street to commemorate the life of William Robertson, a local musician who died suddently. Coopersmith’s record shop, to Sunny’s Bar on Conover Street, for complimentary Budweisers. Outside, a …
The last days of the Swift Folder – Red Hook Star-Revue
WEBJun 1, 2019 · The last days of the Swift Folder. June 1, 2019. Since 1996, the Swift Folder – the internationally renowned folding bicycle – has assisted New Yorkers whose complicated commutes typically feature some combination of walk-up apartments, crowded trains, office elevators, and city streets. How many of them know that its inventor lives and ...
Red Hook Star-Revue – Celebrating Community
WEBSep 10, 2024 · August 13, 2024. Family, friends, neighbors, and appreciative members of the Red Hook community gathered to celebrate Nancy Kearse Gooding at a barbecue on Coffey St on July 20. Last December the corner of Visitation Place and Van Brunt was renamed after her. Kearse Gooding was a force in Red Hook starting in the 1970’s.
Bridging Di-Vision: Homeless Families Across NYC Receive Free …
WEBAug 12, 2021 · There was a time when the NYC waterfront was a blighted mess. When I first started working in New York, first in the Village where encounter the Hudson River, and then here in Brooklyn, and the East River, I took for granted that the burned out piers I saw were an indication that the city just didn’t care about the
St. Frances Xavier “Mother” Cabrini’s impact in New York
WEBDec 9, 2019 · St. Frances Xavier “Mother” Cabrini’s impact in New York. December 9, 2019. Upon coming to America in 1889 from Italy, Saint Frances Xavier “Mother” Cabrini and her seven Sisters helped newly arrived Italian immigrants in Lower Manhattan who were struggling with poverty. Her order organized catechism and educational classes, opened an ...
New Documentary “America’s Last Little Italy” Speaks to All Italian ...
WEBFeb 13, 2021 · There was a time when the NYC waterfront was a blighted mess. When I first started working in New York, first in the Village where encounter the Hudson River, and then here in Brooklyn, and the East River, I took for granted that the burned out piers I saw were an indication that the city just didn’t care about the
Red Hook News – Red Hook Star-Revue
WEBJan 12, 2024 · Red Hook is currently awash in the building of new warehouses. No doubt the biggest is the massive new UPS distribution facility that starts across Valentino Park, extending on the water all the way to the Cruise Terminal. The package delivery company paid $303 million for the property, which most recently was to be the hub of a new tech ...
Adding value to our environment, by Katherine Rivard
WEBJun 15, 2023 · Adding value to our environment, by Katherine Rivard. Destiny Mirabel was working in one of the greenhouses when I walked up to the Columbia Street farm one afternoon in late May. I had imagined the farm’s Distribution Manager clad in overalls, perhaps wearing a pair of knee high rubber boots and wiping a …
11 facts you might not have known about Saint Frances Cabrini
WEBDec 9, 2019 · 1. Cabrini’s original name was Maria Francesca Cabrini, before she took her vows in 1877 and changed her name to Frances Xavier, in tribute to Francis Xavier.. 2. Before becoming a nun, Cabrini was a teacher. She, herself, was taught by the Daughters of the Sacred Heart and had earned a teaching certificate with them in 1868. She was a private school teacher in her hometown of S’ant Angelo ...