By The Red Hook WaterStories team
PortSide NewYork created this Red Hook WaterStories product. PortSide is a maritime non-profit founded in Red Hook in 2005. Our goal is to create a waterfront center with a landing for boats, a home for the MARY A. WHALEN, and more programs and...
Street address: Atlantic Basin Pier 11. Closest corner is Pioneer and Conover Streets.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The City announced plans to completely take over Atlantic Basin from the Port Authority on May 14, 2024. As of that news, this site is being replanned along with the larger Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT). Atlantic Basin has been...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
History of the NY Rising committee and its resiliency plan for Red Hook: The NYS Governors Office for Storm Recovery (GOSR) created the NY Rising "Community Reconstruction Program" (CRP), an 8-month planning process that kicked off in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook Civic Association (RHCA) In early 2023, a new Red Hook Civic Association (RHCA) was started. A previous, unrelated organization with a similar name, the Red Hook Civic, had ceased to be, almost three years prior. More info...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Hamilton Avenue Ferry was established in 1846. It was run by the Union Ferry Company, who also ran the Fulton Ferry at that time. A major destination was a new upmarket cemetery. The ferry offered a “direct approach by way of the Gowanus...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
GBX-Gowanus Bay Terminal is on a historic maritime site which has had several significant iterations. More on those below. GBX’s website says it is a multi-user industrial facility with an emphasis on community, environment, and sustainability."...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Tug captains use landmarks (points on land visible from the water) to tell other mariners and the Coast Guard VTS (Vessel Traffic Service - the harbor equivalent of air traffic controllers) where they are. This is not always as straightforward as...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Night herons live around the Red Hook shoreline. PortSide staff have seen them in Erie Basin (this photo is in the O'Connell's marina), Atlantic Basin, and the Red Hook Container Terminal. As their name implies, they usually fish at night, and are...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Greater New York Marine Transportation is a small tug and barge company that is a tenant of the Erie Basin Bargeport. Greater New York Marine has one oil barge and two tugs (EASTERN DAWN, THE DORY) which deliver fuel products with the barges and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The LOUJAINE is docked in the GBX Company's section of Erie Basin. Previously named the ABU LOUJAINE, and before that the BAHMA, she was built in 1966, in Nagoya, Japan for the Saudi Arabian company Arabian Bulk Trade. In the 1980s the ship...
