By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The trans-Pacific sidewheel steamship GREAT REPUBLIC built by Henry Steers in Greenpoint being fitted out in Graving Dock No. 1 of Erie Basin. The photo was taken in 1867. The dock is one year old. The Erie Basin breakwater is unfinished and at...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sketches of the shanties near Erie Basin, by artist Robert Cummings Wiseman, 1930s. Images are in the collection of the Museum of City of New York and can be seen by clicking on the links below: 46.136.7 46.136.8 46.136.9 46.136.10 46.136.11...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Line drawing showing tall masted schooners in Erie Basin. The artwork, done in 1906 by Charles Henry White is in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York: 29.100.2351
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Aerial view of the Port of New York's Grain terminal. Photo in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York Link to the image: x.2010.11.11743
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Cave-in at Beard's Erie Basin, Pier A, at Richards Street. Beard's Erie Basin, Pier A June 14, 1941. Photos of a cave-in at Pier A, Beard's Erie Basin, foot of Richards Street, June 14, 1941, by the Wurtz Bros photogrophers. Images in the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Artist Jacob Bell's sketch of Red Hook, ca, 1935. In the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Link to mcny image .
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Atlantic Basin around the end of the Civil War. The sidewheel steamer is the TEAZER, formerly the Confederate blockade runner BAT. The propeller steamer FAH KEE is beyond her. The warehouses, with grain elevators, are lining Commercial Wharf. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
PortSide NewYork acknowledges that we are are land and waterways that are the homeland of the Lenape, a place they call "Lenapehoking." The Lenape were displaced by European settlers and forced to move as a group multiple times to several US...
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The Reliance Paint Co. had a facility at 50 Beard Street in the 1920s. The company manufactured structural and marine paint. Red Hook was home to many paint companies. Some of the others were the American Marine Paint Co. and C. A. Woolsley Paint...
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Auditore Jas. and Sons, based at 14 Hamilton Avenue in the 1920s, were in the stevedoring business, loading and unloading ships. They also provided coal and berthing for steamers.
