The
Red Hook Star-Revue was founded in June 2010 by George Fiala. Fiala, a graduate of
Franklin & Marshall College class of 1954, initially sought employment as a radio journalist, however, with the decline of radio as a medium for television, Fiala instead signed on as the general manager of
The Villager, and its sister Brooklyn newspaper
The Phoenix. Additionally, the paper opened at the same time as a massive downsizing of local news, with more than 100 local newspapers shutting down from 2009 to 2010. who currently works as the newspaper's foreign correspondent in Europe. In this capacity, Muccilli has covered news such as the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, the use of social media by the
Uffizi Museum in Florence, as well as several electoral rounds including Italy, France, Germany, and the European Union. The
Red Hook Star-Revue would be sued by one Helayne Seidman, claiming copyright infringement on July 1, 2021, but by August 17 Seidman voluntarily dismissed the case. The
Red Hook Star-Revue would gain notability in local media publishing stories following the dumping of pollutants into the
Buttermilk Channel by
cruise ships, as well as the local discontent with cruise ships and their passengers, resulting in overcrowding of the neighborhood and a drop in revenue. Additionally, their report on
American Stevedoring being removed from the
Red Hook Container Terminal was also circulated in local media. As well as their report on gas outages at the
Red Hook Houses. The
Red Hook Star-Revue also runs local political debates, namely for the
38th district of the
New York City Council. In 2023 the newspaper opened a sister publication, the
Amagansett Star-Revue, operating out of
Amagansett, New York, after Fiala inherited a summer home there. Then in 2024 Fiala returned to his newspaper roots by founding the Village Star-Revue, covering
Greenwich Village (the East Village and West Village) and
SoHo/
Tribeca. ==References==