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Granof and her son Theo in Sicily.Photos courtesy of Victoria Granof.

Victoria Granof Creates Art Out of Food (and, Sometimes, Live Turkeys)

March 28 | Alice Gilbert

In a time when we can all take a picture of what we’re eating and post it online, it can be easy to lose sight of those who create and capture delicious-looking food professionally. That’s exactly what Victoria Granof, a Red Hook native, has been doing for the past two and a half decades. Her […]

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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 […]