By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1890, Mrs. A. M. Hamilton, a widow, was interviewed in Atlantic Basin, and celebrated by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as being equal to any man running a canal boat. Beginning in the mid-1820s, canal boats brought produce from the nation's...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Ybarra Line began shipping olives, olive oil and other products from Spain to the United States at the beginning of the World War One. They became the preferred line for the shipping of olives by establishing a facility in Erie Basin “for...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Atlantic Basin Iron Works office and large work shops were located at Imlay, Summit, Van Brunt, and Bowne Streets. They did all sorts of repairs a ship might need including steamship and diesel motors. The main entry for the Atlantic Basin Iron...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the 1920s there existed a shanty town in Red Hook, largely populated by underemployed sailors and dockworkers. With little money or hope some took to drinking a poisonous homemade brew called smoke . In 1932, a number of smokies , those...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Tide + surge + wind over water (fetch) = what you need to know. Tide Table locations: Gowanus Bay (the water south of Red Hook), The Battery in Manhattan is about a 20 minute difference from Atlantic Basin To calculate the risk of flooding at a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sunny's Bar started out as catering to longshoremen, and hung on as the employment in Red Hook changed Sunny Balzano inherited the place in the 1990s and by dint of his personality turned it into a beloved Red Hook cultural gathering place....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Post 5195 Red Hook Memorial Post 325 Van Brunt St Brooklyn, NY 11231 (718) 624-9313 Meeting Location & Time 7:30 PM 2nd Thursday of Month Quartermaster: Juri Tassa estographicsinc@msn.com Commander: Michael "Mickey" Chirieleison (no email)...
Street address: 325 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1797 the closest fire company to Red Hook was Neptune Engine 2, located a fair distance away at Hicks Street and Atlantic Avenue. It was not until 1861, well after the opening of Atlantic Docks, that the neighborhood got its own company, Hope...
Street address: 199 Van Brunt Street
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ralph Packer is a Martha's Vineyard old-timer who coyly won't reveal his age because he doesn't want to retire! Interviewed while taking a break on the Vineyard Haven pier of his Packer Fuel company, Ralph offers a historical perspective on...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A selection of historic nautical charts, from the NOAA Office of Coast Survey. They provide interesting details on the evolution of Red Hook. Today's Office of Coast Survey traces its charting efforts back to 1807, when President...
