By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Van Dyke Street is almost certainly named for the Van Dyke family, 18th century residents of Red Hook. Mathias and Nicholas Van Dyke at one time owned most of Red Hook. After the death of Mathias in 1834 his land was sold to the Red Hook Building...
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Wolcott Street was most likely named after Oliver Wolcott. a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a general in the Revolutionary War.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
According to the Brooklyn Eagle, King Street is named after a German named King who in 1842 lived in a stone house. He "made his fortune as a ragpicker and scavenger, at the numerous dumping heaps and eventual became a property owner." The...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Verona Street was originally Ewer Street. The name was changed sometime before 1875. Herman Sherman speculated that it was possibly renamed in deference to a large number of Italians in the area who came from Verona.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Van Brunt family was a well-established early Dutch family who settled in New Utrecht. This street may be named for Rutgert Van Brunt who was a member of the NYS Assembly from Kings County from 1783-1784. In 2017 the New York Times wrote an...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Del a van Street was officially listed as Del e ven Street when the City of Brooklyn officially named it. The current spelling might be a correction if, as seems likely, it was named for Delavan Richards, son of Col. Daniel Richards , founder...
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Commerce Street was one of the several Red Hook streets officially plotted and named by the City of Brooklyn in 1835.
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Bowne Street is likely named after Rodman Bowne who owned land in the area in 1834. The Bowne brothers Rodman (November 1784-1845) and Samuel (1791-1845) made their success in the ferry business. They ran the Catherine Street Ferry that landed at...
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The 1766 map of Brooklyn by British military officer Bernard Ratzer, shows that Isaac Seabring owned a property and a mill in Red Hook, roughly at the corner of present day Hicks and Huntington Streets.
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Pioneer Street was originally Williams Street. It was renamed Pioneer Street on April 20, 1903 quite certainly after the Pioneer Iron Works, founded in 1866, which was located on the street. The factory is now home to Pioneer Works, "a center for...
