Gregory C. O’Connell, Developer Who Revived Red Hook, Dies at 83

Gregory C. O'Connell, a Pioneer of Red Hook, Dies at 83

O'Connell was a mentor, a teacher and a builder—not only of buildings but of hope, the O'Connell family said.

Greg O’Connell remembered as force behind small-town revivals

MOUNT MORRIS — Greg O’Connell, who transformed a fading Main Street into a hub of renewed business activity, died Aug. 2 at age 83.

Gregory C. O’Connell, Developer Who Revived Red Hook, Dies at 83

Gregory O’Connell in 2010 in Mount Morris, N.Y., a neglected historic village in the Finger Lakes region of New York that he helped restore after reviving much of the Red Hook section of Brooklyn.