By The Red Hook WaterStories team
January 24 was a cold winter day, but in Brooklyn the roofs and other places were there was a clear view of the sky were crowded with people who had gathered to watch a solar eclipse of the sun. Early that morning, A. A. Caterpon took off in his sea...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ground was broken for the Erie Canal in 1817. When it was completed in 1825 it connected Lake Erie with the Hudson River allowing grain and other produce to travel in barges across New York and the Midwest to grain terminals in Red Hook - to be...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1846 when Hamilton Avenue Ferry service to Manhattan started it was the only mass transit option to and from Red Hook, Brooklyn. This was no longer the case in 1914, street cars and elevated subway lines crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, and the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Red Hook Houses, like many other Red Hook buildings, were built on land that was either originally underwater, or was a tidal marsh. New York City began clearing the land in the 1930s. Some of the land,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1866 the State of New York passed a law to protect sailors from unscrupulous and dishonest boarding house keepers. A license was required to own or run any sailors' boarding house or sailors' hotel. The fee for the license, after expenses, was to...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Photograph of an able-bodied seaman working in snow flurries at Ira S. Bushey and Sons' old shipyard. The end of the line he is working on has been folded back and braided into itself to form a loop. He is inspecting and tightening that splice....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1897, commuters could take a streetcar right to the Hamilton Avenue Ferry. From there it was an easy walk to the businesses clustered around Atlantic Basin. Streetcars also ran to the similarly busy Erie Basin. This according to the Brooklyn...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Smith-9th Street subway station is the primary subway stop for Red Hook. The station serves the F and G lines. Easy transfer is available on street level to the B61 bus to Red Hook. At 87.5 feet feet above the ground, the station has the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
ClubPet NYC An all-boroughs full service dog walking and other pet services compnay owned by musician and ace dogwalker, Sherwin Ewing. Ewing' and his crew of dogwalkers are fully licensed and bonded. Voted by New York Magazine as "Best Dog Walker'....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sailors have long looked to the sky for clues to the impending weather. In the morning, when the sun was low in the sky, a red sky was understood to mean that a storm was likely. Just don't tell it to the judge. On November 10, 1939, the seagoing...
