By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This article from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, March 12, 1911, recounts the winter-time lives of Erie Canal barge families who winter in Erie Basin. Colonies of Cozy Canal Boats Cluster for Winter City of Inland Navigators Prepares for Annual...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This green buoy is one of a series that marks the north/west side of Buttermilk Channel. The green color and odd number (5) indicates to mariners that they should keep it on their port (left) side as they are heading north in the channel. This...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This buoy is on the south side of the main channel connecting the East River and upper New York Harbor. [See U.S. Coast Pilot 2, 45th ed., 2016, pars. 270-286 ] It is a red buoy, telling mariners to keep it on their starboard (right) side as they...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This buoy is at the southwest end of the Buttermilk Channel. It is green and conical, so it tells mariners to keep it on their port (left) side as they are heading north, into the channel. See In The Water for more information on navigating the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This buoy notes the north end of the Bay Ridge Channel. To the south of the buoy are the Gowanus and Bay Ridge Flats, which are too shallow for commercial ships to traverse. This is a green buoy, which indicates to mariners to stay to keep it on...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Many artists have captured the likeness of PortSide NewYork’ s tanker the MARY WHALEN in a variety of styles from plein air paintings, illustrations and comic art. The artists in this collection are: Stephen Gardne r ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor was created in 1953 in response to the pervasive corruption on the waterfront in the Port of New York-New Jersey. A joint state agency it was formed after public hearings revealed corruption,...
Street address: 100 Columbia Street
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By The Red Hook WaterStories team
" Albert Anastasia and Dandy Jack Parisi were frequently seen in the union offices at 33 President Street, Brooklyn, associating with union officers. The so-called City Democratic Club, located in South Brooklyn, was a hangout for racketeers where...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
No man ever, perhaps, got so much the best of old Beard as did Louis Heineman, the housemover of the Twelfth ward” (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 19, 1891) When Louis Heineman died in 1904, he was reportedly 104 years old, and likely the oldest...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The mission of the U.S. Customs and Boarder Protection is to "safeguard America’s borders thereby protecting the public from dangerous people and materials." Dangerous materials range from illegal drugs to infected fruit. Customs inspectors...
