By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"Thousands of the Poor Enjoy the Fresh Air on the Piers" was the lede for a July 1892 article in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The article describes the North and South piers of the Atlantic Basin as crowded in the hot Summer...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Alexandra Dettori opened up her catering and event space business in Red Hook in 2022. They offer both on premise and off premise catering. Their website says: "No event is too small or vision to bold at AD Catering and Events,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Local 1814, International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO commemorated their 20 th anniversary in 1974 with a publication celebrating their accomplishments and with a positive outlook for the future. Higher wages, job security, health...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This image is not an actual photograph but a rendering created by the DALL-E AI system following the instructions given to it by Jefe (a real person). He requested that it create: "Boats leaving the dock in Red Hook Brooklyn, at sunrise in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the mid-1800s, lots of kinds of cargo were carried by canal boats from the U.S. inland to Red Hook to be shipped out around the world or to be used in local manufacturing. Grain was one of the largest imports, but some canal boats regularly...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Print By Designs a print shop specializing in small business branding and packaging, art printing, and large format printing They are Located in a studio space at 106 Ferris st. Instagram @printbydesignsllc (347) 940-6776
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Pietro "Pete" Panto was an Italian American longshoreman and union activist who was murdered by the mob for speaking out and organizing against corrupt union leadership. The Red Hook WaterStories team has not written an entry about him yet but...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Be it today or 100+ years ago, some people, especially landlubbers, find it difficult to make their way to a particular ship or pier. Would that be deemed newsworthy today? Possibly not, but the following anecdote appeared in the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Golten Marine, today is a multi-national corporation but it began in the New York basement shop of Sigurd Golten. Golten (June 03, 1908 - January 04, 1986) grew up and was schooled in Norway, there he became certified as a ship's engineer and then,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
May 30 1868, was the first Decoration Day, a day to remember the many soldiers who died in the American Civil War by decorating their graves with flowers. It officially became a national holiday called Memorial Day in 1971. Particularly, in periods...
