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Brooklyn man receives 40-year sentence for fatal shooting outside Red Hook Houses

March 8 |  Robert Abruzzese, Courthouse Editor

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Raymond Rodriguez sentenced David Gorham, 32, of Red Hook, to 40 years to life in prison for the 2020 murder of Elvin Fernandez.  The attack occurred on June 1, 2020, when Gorham, after spotting Fernandez in a car, ambushed him and his pregnant girlfriend outside a candy store, firing the fatal […]

Local residents gathered outside the Park Slope Library in 2019 to demand the MTA bring back the B71 bus route. Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon has been fighting for its return since 2010. Eagle photo by Paul Frangipane

Residents of booming ‘South Brooklyn’ want their B71 bus back

February 21 | Mary Frost

Residents of Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, the Columbia Street Waterfront District and Red Hook are calling on the MTA to reconnect their neighborhoods by bringing back the B71 bus — a route that once ran along Union Street, looped around Grand Army Plaza, and continued to Eastern Parkway. They are also pushing for a proposed B81 […]

The MSC Meraviglia in Red Hook.

Red Hook residents back bill requiring ships to use shore power

February 16 | Mary Frost

A New York City Council committee heard testimony on Thursday from Red Hook residents and businesses fed up with the pollution, traffic jams and economic hardships that giant cruise ships docked at the Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal have brought to the beleaguered neighborhood. The purpose of the hearing, held by the Council’s Committee on Economic […]