By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Isthmian Steamship Company was a shipping company founded by US Steel in 1910. The company was named after the newly completed Panama Canal at the Isthmus of Panama. In the 1930s the company was split off from US Steel. In...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Bicycle catamaran found adrift towed to Atlantic Basin reported the Journal, June 23, 1896. "Captain Otto Olfen, of the tugboat R. E. Pettie, picked up the boat floating in the lower bay. The rudder chain was twisted around the screw and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
WHAT a thrill!! Surprise visit by two relatives of Ira Bushey who had our ship Mary Whalen built! First Busheys we ever met! Here are sisters Lorraine Novosad and Jamie Russo , Ira's great nieces. We learned alot (did you know that...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Resilient Social Housing in Red Hook, NYC is a master dissertation project developed by Rostislav Krones "for International Master of Architecture at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture in Ghent with professor Kris Scheerlinck as an academic...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"A Red Hook nonprofit hopes to turn a ramp it set up for an injured seagull into a "floating habitat" project to give refuge to city birds." Click here for the article Brooklyn 'Duck Dock' Becomes Prime Real Estate For Birds In Need in the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In June of 1979, scores of local residents attended a meeting of Brooklyn Community Board 6 to voice their displeasure with a plan for the construction of a 70-acre containerport to be built for the Port Authority centering around the Atlantic...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Text of William Bakers obit in the Brooklyn Eagle, April 11, 1940 "William J. Baker Red Hook Native For 40 Years Operated "Billy' Baker's Boathouse - Founded Yacht Club William J. Baker, one of the best know residents of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
John Ryan-Henry & Austin Becker in their 2020 article in the journal Maritime Policy & Management say that in order to plan for comprehensive climate change resilience it is essential to understand the effects of coastal storm hazards...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook WaterStories team has not yet written much about Red Hook longshoremen, their labor issues and working life. (This project currently receives no direct funds). We hope to remedy that some day but until then here...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hōp (pronounced hope) is slated to open some time in 2025. Bun Cheam and his wife Cait Callahan are opening a a Cambodian restaurant at 358 Van Brunt Street. They are backed by Billy Durney who is the owner of two...
