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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Col. Daniel Richards was a visionary developer who set Red Hook on the path to becoming one of the world's major commercial ports. Richards Street is named after him, and Delavan Street is named after his son. Inspired by the powerful economic...
Shortly after Sandy, PortSide identified the need for a flood evacuation plan for vehicles. Current evacuation plans focus on people, but where are all the vehicles supposed to go in a city where parking spaces can be hard to find? At the 2016...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook Laundromat is a full service laundromat with self-service and drop-off service and dry cleaning. They got new washing machines in 2021. Has an ATM and change making machine. Hours: 7am - 9:30pm daily Address: 282 Van Brunt...
Street address: 282 Van Brunt St., Brooklyn
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Interior Design By Appointment Only http://www.annagratia.com/
Street address: 294 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Post hurricane Sandy, Red Hook continues to be intensely studied by the city, state and federal government as well as by many academics. Jump to a quick overview of multiple government-funded plans and how they interrelate (or don't).
