By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Tossed and damaged by strong winds the ANDROMEDA, a four-masted British bark out of Belfast, Ireland arrived at the Erie Basin with tattered sails. The passage was hard on the crew: “Frank Dunn a seaman apprentice, fell from the rigging and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In The Brooklyn Standard Union’s column about reader’s interesting experiences, Gustave tells how a BIG cat gave him the shock of his life when he visited a tramp steamer docked in Erie Basin. (A tramp steamer is ship without a fixed...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Red Hook Houses East and West, like many other Red Hook buildings, were built on land that was either originally underwater, or was a tidal marsh. The floods of Hurricane Sandy were a harsh reminder of this...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sample No. 2, Marked from 017 Erie Basin. Found: Numerous small worms resembling round worms, 0r Nematodes. Numerous diatoms, Oogonia, Conferva filaments, bits of wood, considerable plant epidermis. Ulothrix, Botryococcus braunii, Schizomeris...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Life , a magazine lagely focused on the activities of Brooklyn's upper crust, described where and how many Italians were living in Brooklyn in 1903. ...New York has more Italian residents than the entire population of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Carter Kustera Production 57 Wolcott STreet Brooklyn, NY 11231 718 522 3811 Carter Kustera Production is a studio and art gallery featuring the internationally-aclaimed artist Cater Kustera. Renowned as a sihouette artist, his work has been utilized...
Few people other than those who have business there are acquainted, except by name, with the part of South Brooklyn known as Erie Basin. Yet it is one of the most interesting sections of this city and one that is never so inactive as not to be well...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Brooklyn Life reporter Addison Steele, describes in 1897 the harvesting and pickling of mussles growing on the ramains of ship in Erie basin: A large part of the bull of the sunken Ailsa has been removed from the spot where she went...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
You've heard of watersheds, this project is about sewersheds. The sewer system impacts flooding in Red Hook both in terms of overflows coming up into the street from storm drains and backing up into buildings via their sewer lines. The...
