By The Red Hook WaterStories team
American competition with China goes back centuries. To compete with China’s silk industry, white mulberries were imported into the American colonies because silkworms only eat white mulberry leaves. It is possible, however, that, to protect...
Named for its ruddy colored soil, Red Hook was once a verdant wetlands etched by a branching network of tidal creeks. The Dutch who settled in Red Hook in the 17th century applied their knowledge of aquatic technology to the marshy landscape and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Watch the super short videos below to learn about small marine life and how to test for some water conditions next to PortSide's ship the MARY A. WHALEN. Below that, info about larger animal life in, on and around the waterfront in Atlantic Basin,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ships have unintended passengers As ships travel across the oceans between the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and elsewhere they take with them unintended passengers. These stowaways include seeds mixed in with ballast. In order to be properly...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
November 6, 2018, the PortSide crew spots a great blue heron in Atlantic Basin for the first time. So exciting! More about them here https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Blue_Heron/overview Also: Guide to Harbor Herons and Other...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The sounds of the Mary Whalen are more than just the ship moving in the water, and the NYC ferry idling at the dock, it is also, the call of gulls, the quack of ducks, and on this night, the very loud trill of a cricket.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A few ducks and geese are often to be found in the waters of Atlantic Basin in the the Spring and Summer. The ducks in this video, shot from the aft end of the MARY WHALEN, are swimming in water near the City's combined sewer overflow pipe. The...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Swallows live under the piers with fendering (wooden cross piece's of piers) and like the dock lines and mast and stack stays on the Mary Whalen They arrive around April 9 and leave around August 23
