The Red Hook Star-Revue

09/08/2025

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Saul Steinberg

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This is my first column for the Village Star R***e. Getting the attention of people on the frantic streets of Manhattan is more challenging than getting people to talk to me on the laid-back streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn which I do every month for my People of Red Hook column. So, for my virgin POTV column, I waylaid mostly older people like myself, who tend to walk slower and couldn’t as easily breeze past me....

This is my first column for the Village Star R***e. Getting the attention of people on the frantic streets of Manhattan is more challenging than getting

08/15/2025

New York City painter Roberto Azank always surprises. Having been called the “chromatic Mozart,” as he can and has harmonized the seemingly most incongruent hues at the pictorial horizon line, he now turns to abstraction to paint waves of chroma, firstly sampling his own still life and pastoral scenes of lotus flowers upon lily pads and other placid bodies of water, and secondly a whole range of the palettes of colorist superstars....

New York City painter Roberto Azank always surprises. Having been called the “chromatic Mozart,” as he can and has harmonized the seemingly most incongruent

08/15/2025

In July I set out to discover what exactly is the state of poetry in downtown Manhattan. NY Poetry Fest was taking place, and several interesting invitations to book launch events landed in my inbox. It appeared I was in for a total immersion. The first event that caught my attention was a book launch at the Tompkins Square Library in the East Village, hosted by…...

In July I set out to discover what exactly is the state of poetry in downtown Manhattan. NY Poetry Fest was taking place, and several interesting invitations

08/15/2025

Before there was a city, there was a crooked path. Today, we call it the Bowery—one of New York’s oldest streets and most fiercely contested strips of cultural real estate. Winding from Chatham Square to Cooper Square, it predates the city’s grid and bears the weight of centuries: from Lenape footpath to Dutch wagon trail to the stomping ground of soldiers, artists, drunks, poets, and punks....

By the 1950s and ’60s, artists moved into abandoned commercial lofts — cheap spaces with good light. Mark Rothko painted his Four Seasons murals at 222