By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Post hurricane Sandy, Red Hook continues to be intensely studied by the city, state and federal government as well as by many academics. Jump to a quick overview of multiple government-funded plans and how they interrelate (or don't).
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Atlantic Dock Company brought over workers from Germany to build the Atlantic Basin after the Irish workers who had begun the job demanded better pay. On April 15, 1846 newspapers reported on a riot between angry Irish and the newly...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sketch of Thomas Williams, a Black Sailor, by London portraitist John Downman (1750–1824). The sketch, in the collection of the Tate Museum , was drawn in Liverpool in 1815. According to the Tate, Thomas Williams had a connection with MP...
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PortSide has been corresponding with Don Horton since 2013. He visited us in 2015 from North Carolina to give us an oral history. The last time Don had visited Red Hook was in 1950. He wrote the memory of Red Hook Flats below in 2015. For related...
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A 1782 map of New York, reproduced from a drawing in the British War Office, printed by B. F. Steven in 1900. The map shows fortifications made during the American Revolutionary War. Cartographer Eymund Diegel has overlaid the modern Red...
Benjamin Ratzer surveyed Brooklyn for the British in 1766-7. Cartographer Eymund Diegel has overlaid the modern street grid onto Ratzer's map Colors have been added to the map to indicate features such as beaches, wetlands, forests and shorelines....
Google Translation: Chinese ( 中文 ), Spanish ( E spañol ) For our larger collection of resiliency info go here. For Jim McMahon's Red Hook Sandy flood map go here . Please take our short survey about flood prep Contact PortSide...
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All Pilates classes must be rsvp'd for at least one hour before the start time. Walk-ins are welcome as long as there are at least two participants. RSVP: redhookpilates@gmail.com Red Hook Yoga occurs at the same place, but note "The yoga...
Street address: 414 Van Brunt Street Brooklyn New York 11231
Interviewed in 2013 at age 19, Rasheed Johnson, a resident of NYCHA’s Red Hook houses, talks about how the neighborhood has changed in the past 8 years since he got here. Development has eliminated all his “hang out spots” except for Valentino...
Richard Gambino, a retired professor, grew up in Red Hook in the 1950s. Interviewed by oral historian Shannon Geis in 2013, he recalls it as a close-knit Italian immigrant commumity. He talks of the customs and traditons of the...
