Miller said a donation from Jordan Brand will be made to The Red Hook Initiative.
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Last fall, Superstorm Sandy also flooded and damaged its location in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood.
The haters came on early and strong for this venturesome tri-level seafood shack in Red Hook.
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Sweeney faces Democrat Jean Bordewich, 41, an elected member of the Red Hook town council.
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By the 1990s, intrepid tenants had given new life to the old structures, and Red Hook's renaissance was underway.
Red Hook, Brooklyn, is a mixture of light industry, open space, and residences.
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He returned to the city where he was born, across the Brooklyn Bridge, in the brick apartment towers of Red Hook.
So a group of small businesses organized a collaborative fundraising effort, ReStore Red Hook, that will provide small grants quickly.
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Relatively few residents have cars, and Red Hook's public transport is woeful.
Each year, 50 residents of Red Hook and the surrounding area perform community-based public service, including repairing broken locks on people's homes and cleaning up graffiti.
The Church of St Luke and St Matthew in Clinton Hill and the warehouse in Red Hook serve as distribution centres for volunteers and donated supplies.
Striking views of lower Manhattan and the nearly completed 104-story Freedom Tower may peek through from across the harbour, but Red Hook feels a million miles away.
Kirby Desmaris, 26, along with her husband and her 18-month-old daughter, Georgiah, have staked out the park all week though they sleep at home in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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With state money, the Centre for Court Innovation, in partnership with the Brooklyn district attorney and Victim Services, has set up the Red Hook Public Safety Corps.
In the Justice Centre's mock courtroom, children taking part in the Red Hook Youth Court (which has been running for a year) hear proceedings involving wayward youngsters.
Half a block away, a twenty-eight year old graduate student looked at photos posted to Facebook that showed flooding in Red Hook Brooklyn and the East Village.
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The fact that the centre is right in Red Hook should cut down the number of residents who lose cases by failing to turn up at the hearing.
Mr. Snyder was initially denied the NYBDC loan because he couldn't show a profit, as Red Hook Winery had spent a great deal of money moving to its waterfront location.
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If Red Hook's Justice Centre the most ambitious community-justice project so far can strengthen Red Hook, it may work in other areas where deprivation and crime appear to be facts of life.
The group has already mobilized numerous volunteer units to deliver essentials and work in the hardest hit areas including Far Rockaway, the Lower East Side, Red Hook and Staten Island.
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Simultaneously, the construction of sewage channels and the Gowanus Expressway on the community's eastern edge created a physical barrier between Red Hook and the rest of Brooklyn, crippling the already struggling community further.
Businesses in Red Hook are moving toward this.
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Emergency personnel gathered in New York Friday alongside the canal, which borders Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood, in an effort to rescue the marine mammal, which inadvertently had become trapped in the channel's muck and mud.
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When the Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes to the shores of Red Hook via the Hudson River in 1825, a new shipping centre was born, and by 1848 more than 800 homes, workers' boarding houses and warehouses had sprung up by the bustling docks.
Jonathan nailed down the schoolyard in Fort Greene, I set about finding 150 vendors for our opening day, curating them with an eye toward quality, threw in the Red Hook Food Vendors and some other foodies and hired a marching band to play opening day. 20, 000 people came, the Times did a photo shoot, and here we are.
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