Three Years After Sandy, the Red Hook Barnacle Parade Uses the Storm as an Excuse to Throw a Party

Red Hook celebrates surviving Sandy.all photos by Jane Bruce
Three years ago yesterday, 12-year Red Hook resident Anne O’Neil was at home in her Richards Street kitchen cooking risotto. Her friends, a couple, were fighting, and she wanted to spend the night alone with a book and a home-cooked dinner. She knew a storm was coming, but also that her gas stove would keep working even if she lost electricity.
“So I was making risotto, and stirring it, and suddenly I lo