By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Atlantic Dock Company brought over workers from Germany to build the Atlantic Basin after the Irish workers who had begun the job demanded better pay. On April 15, 1846 newspapers reported on a riot between angry Irish and the newly...
Benjamin Ratzer surveyed Brooklyn for the British in 1766-7. Cartographer Eymund Diegel has overlaid the modern street grid onto Ratzer's map Colors have been added to the map to indicate features such as beaches, wetlands, forests and shorelines....
Google Translation: Chinese ( 中文 ), Spanish ( E spañol ) For our larger collection of resiliency info go here. For Jim McMahon's Red Hook Sandy flood map go here . Please take our short survey about flood prep Contact PortSide...
Interviewed in 2013 at age 19, Rasheed Johnson, a resident of NYCHA’s Red Hook houses, talks about how the neighborhood has changed in the past 8 years since he got here. Development has eliminated all his “hang out spots” except for Valentino...
Richard Gambino, a retired professor, grew up in Red Hook in the 1950s. Interviewed by oral historian Shannon Geis in 2013, he recalls it as a close-knit Italian immigrant commumity. He talks of the customs and traditons of the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Wrecks in Storm's Wake Great Damage Wrought All Along the Coast .... Tremendous damage was wrought all along the coast from Cape May to Boston by the northeast gale, which continued yesterday with unabated fury. .... Cellars and Sewers Flooded. .......
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Opened in January 2016, this is a bar of the mixology type created by the protégé and partner of pioneering drinks legend Sasha Petraske. Exposed brick, stainless steel tabletops in intimate booths, each with its own water...
Street address: 228 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center, provides preventive and comprehensive primary health care Hours : Mon - Fri: 8:30AM - 5PM Sat: 8:30AM -2PM Address : 120 Richards St Brooklyn, NY 11231 Phone : 718-945-7150 Website :...
Street address: 120 Richards St Brooklyn, NY 11231
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook Flats Anchorage in New York Harbor was constructed to accommodate ocean going cargo ships and tankers. It provides a spot for ships to anchor off shore. To suit ships of different depths portions of it are 35, 40, and 45 feet deep.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
On September 22, 1900, a fire destroyed $100,000 worth of property in a warehouse and grain elevator. The fire destroyed one warehouse that had been rebuilt after another fire just three months before. The Red Hook Fire Department fought the blaze,...
