By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Visitation Place in Red Hook, Brooklyn, was co-named Nancy Kearse Gooding Way on December 10, 2023. Red Hook in the 1970s was going through tough times. Longshoremen strikes idled many, and industries that depended on shipping then laid off...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Community fridges provide free food to whoever needs it. There is a community fridge at 63 Seabring Street. It is stocked with meals every Tuesday afternoon around 2:30-3:00pm. The note on the fridge says: TAKE WHAT YOU WANT, LEAVE WHAT YOU CAN...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The # FinalNotice describes itself as "an interactive map app that exposes climate change, environmental racism & historical erasure on the Brooklyn waterfront" The project was initiated by Danielle Russo Performance Project in 2020...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Thousands of Red Hook youth in 1952 experienced being on the water thanks to a summertime excursion that took them up the river and out of the hot city for a day in the country. On August 26, 2500 kids loaded on to a boat docked at the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The 2022 public art project, @Work was by Zoe Beloff and Eric Muzzy. Portraits were made of essential workers in acrylic paint. These were then put on banners with QR codes linked to documentary films they made were essential workers describe...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
David Bowie music video for his 2013 song "Valentine's Day" is set inside the Red Hook Grain Terminal The same year the music video for Lorde's "Team" was filmed in and around the grain terminal.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Paul Frangipane is a photojournalist based in Brooklyn. He describes his approach as "through an intimate documentary lens, striving to capture the beauty in natural moments and providing creative perspectives on common events." Paul...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook WaterStories is a virtual guide to both past and present of this special neighborhood created by PortSide NewYork . We cover the past via our maritime aka "WaterStories" theme. You can search by The map (click the layers at upper right)...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Zoltán Glück was a graduate student when Sandy hit, and he worked with Occupy Sandy doing recovery work in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Occupy Sandy, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, was a major and innovative force for Sandy recovery in New...
