Brownstoner

Smith Street: Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill and Downtown

To wander up Smith Street is to take a journey through a Brooklyn you can see changing before your eyes. On its southern end, in Red Hook, Smith Street is undergoing a rebirth from an industrial ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Take a stroll on Hamilton Avenue and Columbia Street in Red Hook

Eye on Real Estate: Sometimes you need an urban adventure. How about a stroll beneath a highway? If it leads you through Red Hook, it’s totally worthwhile. There’s a gritty beauty to the underside of ...
The Brooklyn Paper

God’s country? Red Hook street gets heavenly name

A Red Hook street just got a heavenly new name — and that’s the problem. To honor seven dead 9-11 firefighters, a portion of Richards Street has been ceremonially renamed “Seven in Heaven Way” — ...
Curbed

Red Hook’s 160 Imlay Street will welcome residents this year

An alternate universe version of Red Hook, where neighboring buildings, shadows, traffic, and streets do not exist around 160 Imlay Street. Anyone whose walked by the site between Pioneer and Verona ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Sidney Hook, an Intellectual Street Fighter, Reconsidered

It would take a mighty large bookcase to contain all of the works on pragmatism published over the last two decades. The brainchild of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and William James (1842-1910) ...
The Brooklyn Paper

Red Hook residents push to route trucks away from Van Brunt Street

Red Hookers are pushing the Department of Transportation to remove Van Brunt Street from the city’s truck route map, contending that the massive vehicles that barrel down the corridor are out of touch ...