In Brooklyn project, residents wait for help in the cold and dark
From www.latimes.com BROOKLYN, N.Y. — When Ulysses Bermudez hikes upstairs to check on his elderly neighbors in his public housing project, he is met by a fetid stench from people unable or afraid to...
View ArticleIn Red Hook, Mesh Network Connects Sandy Survivors Still Without Power
From www.techpresident.com As of Sunday, some people had power back, but no heat. Others have no power or heat. No one has Internet to their homes, and cell service is still spotty too. But thanks to...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy And Red Hook
From www.gothamgazette.com NEW YORK — On May 29, city officials and business leaders, including a representative of Fairway Market, kicked off National Hurricane Preparedness Week in Red Hook,...
View ArticleFrom Congregations to Occupy, Nongovernmental Groups Provide Sandy Relief
From www.metrofocus.org Hurricane Sandy was a disaster on a scale not seen in New York City since 9/11, and the city is slowly recovering and starting to put the pieces of people’s lives back together....
View ArticleIn Hurricane-Battered Red Hook, Disaster is Breeding Resilience
From nation.time.com “Put Some Brightness Into Your Home!” reads a poster at the entrance to the newly established makeshift FEMA headquarters in Red Hook, the Brooklyn neighborhood devastated by...
View ArticleOur friend Medical Matt
When things were at its most bleak in Red Hook, and in our building we were serving food, offering legal aid, charging cell phones, warming bodies, gathering and distributing supplies and administering...
View ArticleMedical Matt Again!
When Matthew Kraushar was approached about creating a major medical relief effort in the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Red Hook after Hurricane Sandy, he didn’t think he was qualified to do it. “I...
View ArticleStories Of Sandy: Red Hook Initiative
Via brooklynspectator.com From the moment it was safe to exit their homes, the staff of the Red Hook Initiative (RHI) were out in force, mobilizing at their offices inside 767 Hicks Street to set up a...
View ArticleBecause Red Hook Wouldn’t Let Red Hook Go Under
From New York Magazine Featuring Operations staff member Sandy Serrano, NY Mag wrote a nice piece encapsulating how the Red Hook community, and the Red Hook Initiative, worked to save itself. Sandy...
View ArticleRemember Taste of Red Hook?
We still do. It was an amazing and delicious time so long ago. Thanks go out to all of the restaurant owners, the silent auction givers/receivers, staff young and old, volunteers and of course, our...
View ArticleTaste of Red Hook
Thank you Sarah Zorn and BKMag.com for highlighting our upcoming event…one week and counting!! To look at the remarkable way Red Hook has rebounded in just one year after Hurricane Sandy, you might...
View ArticleTaste of Red Hook
Thank you Sarah Zorn and BKMag.com for highlighting our upcoming event…one week and counting!! To look at the remarkable way Red Hook has rebounded in just one year after Hurricane Sandy, you might...
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