By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Rich Naruszewitz was interviewed by PortSide NewYork's Jenny Kane in 2014. Synopsis of Interview (times are approximate, text is not word-for-word but provides a gist of the audio recording - at bottom of page) I work in NY Harbor — will be my...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Synopsis of interview with Heidi Benedikt, former crew member of the MARY A. WHALEN. Recording times in parenthesis are aproximate. Go to bottom of the page to hear the full interview (0:10) The delegate of the union convinced me to go work...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Drop-off laundry service and more 289 Columbia St Brooklyn, NY 11231 b/t Woodhull St & Summit St TLLLCOVE1@gmail.com Hours: Monday • 8AM–7PM Tuesday • 8AM–7PM Wednesday 8AM–7PM Thursday 8AM–7PM Friday • 8AM–7PM Saturday 8AM–5PM...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Old Fashioned hand-made ice cream " We named Ample Hills after Walt Whitman's poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, which speaks of the connectedness of people across time and space... " According to ny.eater.com the Red Hook location has 15,000 square...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ichaboe, a small island off the coast of Nambia, once towered high with mounds of seabird guano. An excellent fertilizer, beginning in 1843, English ships began exporting the guano to eager farmers in Europe and America. By 1844, 450 ships were...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In honor of the ship MARY A .WHALEN reaching its 80th year PortSide NewYork invited the Urban Sketchers to come and be inspired by her views. Below is some of the artwork made that day. Scattered on, around, and in the Red Hook neighborhood of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This 1859 map shows the established Atlantic Basin in Red Hook, and a neighboring "Proposed Basin" that was not built as shown. The large Erie Basin, however, was built closer to the Gowanus in the mid-1860s. The towns of Bushwick and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
1850 Map of the City of Brooklyn by J. F Harrison, published by M. Dribbs. Atlantic Dock has been built by this time but Erie Basin had not and much of present day Red Hook is still under water. The companies listed at Atlantic Dock are: United...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The large expance of Brooklyn Red Hook property of John Dikeman and others was mapped in preparation of it sale on Monday, August 29, 1836. The map shows the waterline of Red Hook of the time and the projected land, roads and park noting that: The...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The large Red Hook, Brooklyn estate of Jordan Coles was put up for sale on June 2nd, 1836, following his death. The map shows the Gowanus Creek, before it was turned into a canal; mills and mill ponds; scattered houses and a mansion, not aligned...
