Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee Returns to His Brooklyn Roots
“He may not be transferring his basketball loyalty from the New York Knicks to the newly installed Brooklyn Nets, but Spike Lee is the movie bard of the borough he grew up in. Lee’s first feature, She’s Gotta Have It in 1986, was shot in his old neighborhood of Fort Greene; his signature film, the 1989 Do the Right Thing, profiled racially mixed Bensonhurst on a sweltering summer day…”