The Red Hook Star-Revue

08/18/2025

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Saul Steinberg

08/15/2025

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

08/15/2025

In the NYC 2025 Primary Election Voter Guide, sixteen of the twenty mayoral candidates listed affordability or a related factor as one of their top three issues. Rent is high, MTA trips add up, and even a bacon, egg, and cheese feels more like a special treat these days. But despite the uphill financial battle to live in New York City, there are always a few places that offer drinks at a range of prices, while still making guests feel like they’re living the high life....

In the NYC 2025 Primary Election Voter Guide, sixteen of the twenty mayoral candidates listed affordability or a related factor as one of their top three

08/15/2025

When I was a kid, I had a dream, a wonderful dream. I would dress up in my parents’ clothes or my toy-store tutu, bound into my parents’ bedroom, fling open my arms, yell ta-da and do a little song and dance. Before long, shyness and trouble singing on key knocked the budding entertainer right out of me. Then about ten years ago I had a piece of prose accepted for a r***e called “New York Ladies” at the Hudson Guild Theater, and I learned that this entitled me to be in the cast if I wanted....

When I was a kid, I had a dream, a wonderful dream. I would dress up in my parents’ clothes or my toy-store tutu, bound into my parents’ bedroom, fling open

08/15/2025

The coffee flower...these delicate white blooms are not only beautiful but also integral to the coffee plant’s life cycle and important to the development of the beans that turn into the brew in our daily cup. Coffee flowers grow on the coffee tree and are typically small, white, star-shaped blossoms. The flowers have a jasmine-like fragrance. While they may look delicate, coffee flowers are the reproductive organs of the plant, playing a key role in the development of coffee beans....

The coffee flower...these delicate white blooms are not only beautiful but also integral to the coffee plant’s life cycle and important to the development of

08/15/2025

I was standing outside our family beach bungalow at the Jersey Shore, watering the garden, when a neighbor greeted me as he walked down the road. “Was your mother Agnes?” he asked. “Yes, I replied, “I’m Kate.” “Your mother was a gem,” he said, introducing himself. “I miss talking to her.” “We miss her too.” All the old timers in our little summer community knew my parents. ...

I was standing outside our family beach bungalow at the Jersey Shore, watering the garden, when a neighbor greeted me as he walked down the road.

08/15/2025

Community Boards 2 and 3 head into summer break in August. For their respective July meetings, that meant housekeeping on last-minute issues and updates on upcoming events in the East and West Village. Community Board 2’s meeting covered several new bills and programs that will impact the West Village, including a bill signed by Gov. Karhy Hochul on June 30 to reauthorize the city’s school zone speed camera program for another five years, ensuring that speed cameras can continue to keep New York City school children safe....

Community Boards 2 and 3 head into summer break in August. For their respective July meetings, that meant housekeeping on last-minute issues and updates on