By The Red Hook WaterStories team
PortSide frequently programs with this charter school that is in the same building as PS 676 elementary school. The building formerly housed PS 27, and old-timers still refer to the building that way. Summit Academy Charter School is a college-...
Street address: 27 Huntington Street
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook Playgroup 183 Richards Street, Brooklyn 11231 www.redhookplaygroup.org Playgroup's statement: "Red Hook Playgroup provides a rich, progressive, community-based early education for children between the ages of 2.6 and 5. We believe that all...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
PAVE Academy Pre-K Program is based at 76 Lorraine Street K-8 school is located at 732 Henry Street Administrative Offices are located at 238 Conover Street paveacademy.org School's statement: "PAVE Schools prepares Prekindergarten to 8th grade...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Canal boats moored in a tightly-packed cluster in the Erie Basin ca. 1900. These flat bottomed boats, moved grain, potatoes and a variety of other produce and goods down the Erie Canal to Brooklyn's Red Hook. In the warm months...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Kids have been swimming off the piers of Red Hook probably ever since the piers existed. It is not common today in part because of the increasing awareness that the polluted water, particularly after a rain fall, is a health hazard. "Taking a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Tugboat Information.com has a searchable website that provides descriptions of tugboats both active and retired.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Historian Henry Stiles writes in his 1884 history of Brooklyn: "The southern portion of the Hook was a high hill covered with locust, poplar, cedar, and sassafras trees. This hill was cut down in 1835 by Messers. Dikeman, Waring and Underhill for...
Joe Ruggiero, aka “Joey Chips” since he always showed up at a party with a bag of chips, was a WWII vet who was still driving in 2016 at the time of this interview. He passed in early 2024. He was the embodiment of the Greatest...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Photo taken July 26, 1939 from Columbia Street ("long dock"as old-timers call it) of a family posing aboard their home: the canal barge G.W LETHBRIDGE. The G.W. LETHBRIDGE. was a canal boat that transported grain down the Erie Canal to Red Hook's...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hamilton Avenue Ferry Terminal in Brooklyn as seen from Union Street, 1924. Clicking on the TAG Hamilton Avenue Ferry below will bring you to a list of related stories such as: How the Hamilton Avenue Ferry got started,...
