By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The King of Siam was having kittens over his missing cat, and a $1000 reward was offered for her return, according to a story attributed to the New York Times The tale starts with Satsuma, a steel freighter flying the British flag anchoring in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This 1876 map, a copy of which is in the collection of the Brooklyn Historical Society , is designed to show Brooklyn's shoreline at the time and the salt marshes and shoreline of 100 years prior, before it was built up, filled in drained and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook WaterStories Team has not had a chance to summarize this 1912 romantic take on Red Hook's canal boat dwellers but you will find similar stories in these stories tagged canal boat
Jerome Krase is an emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor of sociology. Brooklyn born, he " has worked with and studied a wide variety of city-wide organizations as well as neighborhood and ethnic groups in New York City, especially in Brooklyn."...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
NYU Graduate students working on their capstone thesis had as their client Councilmember Alexa Avilés and created a report and recommendations on the "Revitalization of the South Brooklyn Waterfront" responding to the Brooklyn Marine Terminal...
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...
The premier of this film was on May 29, 2025 with an open discussion afterwards. This occurred on the Waterfront Museum Barge in Red Hook, co-hosted by them and PortSide NewYork. More screenings are being planned for June 2025. This film was created...
The issue of affordable housing is always an issue in the greater Red Hook, Brooklyn area, as it is elsewhere, but it is particularly relevant at the time of this writing (Spring 2025) when the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is pushing...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In celebration of MARY A WHALEN's 83rd birthday during the COVID era, May 2021, PortSide toured the ship live on FaceBook. Virtual tour from 10:30 to 11:15 of the historic ship Mary Whalen for #MaryWhalen83 celebrations. #RedHook #brooklyn...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Molly Ivins of the New York Times in her November 1981 piece, RED HOOK SURVIVES HARD TIMES INTO NEW ERA provides a historical overview of the place. Today, Red Hook is usually defined as the Brooklyn peninsula near Governor's Island,...
