By The Red Hook WaterStories team
NYU Graduate students partnered with the office on NYC Councilmember Alexa Avilés in 2025 to create a report and recommendations on the "Revitalization of the South Brooklyn Waterfront" with a particular focus on Red Hook. Here is...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Construction of The Atlantic Dock - a massive, man-made harbor for all manor of cargo ships, from deep water vessels to canal boats, began on June 3, 1841. Less than four years later, in their November 25, 1845 edition, the New Y...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Carolina Salguero, PortSide’s Executive Director, narrated a tour covering the history of Red Hook’s working waterfront (docks) and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal process during a free public sail we offered as part of our visiting vessel...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Updates since close of comment period 11/15/23 press release from office of Congressman Dan Goldman: In short: the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) invoked the agency’s role as formal non-federal sponsor of HATS. NYS DEC’s...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A 2006 study examined parts of the Brooklyn Piers 7-12 site north of the Atlantic Basin that were flagged by the Landmarks Preservation Commission as warranting further study and assessment for their potential sensitivity to yield remains of...
A History of Red Hook Norman Brouwer, noted maritime historian - the man who basically wrote THE guides to historic ships and some of our national preservation standards for them - graciously wrote this maritime history of Red Hook for...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
During the 1970s, there was a long-running discussion about what to do with the Red Hook waterfront after the creation of containerization. There was a plan for a larger containerport running the length of the western shoreline that did not...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A 1921 report of New York City’s Chief Engineer considered the feasibility - structurally, financially, and politically - of constructing a Red Hook shoal island to serve as a protective breakwater. It was suggested that such an island would...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Local 1814, International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO commemorated their 20 th anniversary in 1974 with a publication celebrating their accomplishments and with a positive outlook for the future. Higher wages, job security, health...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
HighWaterLine was a public artwork on the New York city waterfront - including Red Hook, Brooklyn- by Eve Mosher an artist deeply concerned with the affects of climate change. During the summer of 2007, she walked, chalked and marked almost 70...
