Now off the road, Elizabeth Millien, a trained opera singer, is helping customers at Fairway in Red Hook, Brooklyn, locate every item on their lists.

On the deck of a retired oil tanker parked in the waters of Red Hook, Carolina Salguero runs a series of cultural gatherings days each summer.

A rough-and-tumble-looking Hudson Valley town is attracting its own creative crowd away from New York City neighborhoods like Williamsburg.

The Rev. Isidro Bolaños told people from his church in Red Hook that a big social service agency would begin in March.

The Ikea store is in the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn, but a visitor can find much to soothe the soul and please the taste buds in its environs as well.

Some evangelical leaders and recently hired employees have questions about a Brooklyn social services program that a pastor says will begin this week.

After working most of the day, the animal trainer Andrea Arden usually takes Sunday nights off.For the animal trainer Andrea Arden, a day of work, dinner with friends and a night in with the pets.

Although Oreo was seen as a danger to the public by officials, the news of her impending death prompted an outpouring of last-minute pleas to spare her life.

Oreo, a pit bull mix, was hailed as a miracle dog last summer, but officials said she showed extreme aggressiveness and could not be controlled.

Oreo, a pit bull mix, was hailed as a miracle dog last summer, but officials said she showed extreme aggressiveness and could not be controlled.