Taste of Red Hook, Solar for Sandy Top Week's Headlines

Hundreds Get a Taste of Red Hook, Benefit Youth Programs

Since taking place at a board member’s home seven year’s ago, Red Hook Initiative’s Taste of Red Hook event has grown in more ways than one.

From a beginning with 10 restaurants and 75 people, the seventh annual event -- held at the Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation -- featured around 50 businesses with 600 people getting a taste before the night was over.

'Solar for Sandy' Introduced at Red Hook Rec Center

The Red Hook Recreation Center in Brooklyn recently became the first official beneficiary of Global Green USA's ‘Solar For Sandy’ resiliency initiative.

A ribbon-cutting celebration for the installation, which took place in collaboration with lead funder IKEA, took place Oct. 23.

'Girls' Star Buys Carroll Gardens Brownstone for $2 Million

Jemima Kirke, star of the HBO show 'Girls', is moving to Carroll Gardens.

According to a report in The New York Observer, Kirk recently forked over $2 million for a 3,360 square-foot Brownstone at 408A Clinton Street.

Carroll Gardens Social: Preserving Banksy

Graffiti artist Banksy's Red Hook piece has been covered for protection from vandals.