By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal (BCT) opened in 2006 in Atlantic Basin, and according to the official website "offers all the services and comforts expected from a world-class cruise facility including 200,000 square feet of flexible...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The O'Connell organization is one of the largest property owners in Red Hook and owns inland and waterfront property. They have a small marina for recreational vessels. The marina generally has no vacancies.
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Jalopy Tavern is a restaurant with live music attached to the Jalopy Theatre. The Jalopy Theatre showcases traditional American music, and "folk music from around the world, from Mexican Son Jarocho music, to Gypsy Jazz and African cora music. If...
Street address: Jalopy Tavern
317 Columbia Street Brooklyn, NY 11231
http://jalopytavern.biz
Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn NY 11231
https://www.jalopy.biz/
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook Container Terminal is run by the company Red Hook Terminals for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The Port Authority acquired the port in the 1950s, a time when goods were shipped not in standardized truck-size boxes but as...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
While fueling the large array of boats that are clients of American Petroleum & Transport, Captain Rich Naruszewicz also delivers harbor gossip and wisecracks. Read about him in Professional Mariner here . Listen to his oral history about his...
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New York Water Taxi (NYWT) has jaunty boats painted to evoke old-fashioned New York checker cabs, bright yellow with a trim of black and white checks. The company was founded in 2002 with backing from Douglas Durst. It was based from the start in...
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Buchanan Marine is a tenant of the Erie Basin Bargeport. In the New York Harbor their barges move 6 million tons of aggregate used to make concrete and asphalt yearly. Website: buchananmarinelp.com See also: ...
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Reinauer is a family-owned marine company of long standing. (Formally known as Reinauer Transportation Companies or RTC). Bert Reinauer established the company in 1923. The company soon faced, and survived, the Great...
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Hughes Marine Hughes Bros. Erie Basin Bargeport Billing themselves a “Clearinghouse for Marine Difficulties” and in operation since 1894, Hughes Brothers is Red Hook’s oldest marine firm. They beat by four years Vane Brothers, founded in...
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Vane Line Bunkering (sometimes called Vane Brothers) at the foot of Red Hook’s Court Street in the Gowanus Bay, occupies part of the site of the former Ira S. Bushey & Sons facility. The property is owned by Buckeye who also owns and operates...
