By The Red Hook WaterStories team
American competition with China goes back centuries. To compete with China’s silk industry, white mulberries were imported into the American colonies because silkworms only eat white mulberry leaves. It is possible, however, that, to protect...
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A shipment of animals destined to zoos arrived in Red Hook's Atlantic Basin in 1922, too good a story for the Evening Telegraph to pass up. The early 1920s saw the continued progression of an increasingly globalized world that was emerging in the...
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From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, the cereal market started to emerge. Invented in western New York, before long it became popular. With the creation of brands like Kellogg, Quaker Oats, cereal would secure its position as a national...
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The Brooklyn Biscuit Company "The Brooklyn Biscuit Company is a woman-owned business that began as a pop-up fundraiser in Brooklyn, where every Sunday, I would sell our sweet and savory biscuits to help raise funds for 6/15 Green community...
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"The Bridge, Erie Basin, N.Y.," is an etching Henry B. Shope (1862 - 1929). Tall masted ships, barges, horses and telegraph poles would have been a common site in Broolyn's Erie Basin from its construction in 1864 through the begining of...
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Pencil sketch of Atlantic Basin by George Reynolds, 1869 The tall building depicted at the left is a grain elevator used in the moving of grain on and off ships and as a storage silo. The other buildings along the dock, such as "Bailey's Stores" and...
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By the end of the 19th century, New York Harbor continued to retain its status as the busiest port in the US, and had become one of the busiest in the whole world. The port was lined with shippers and boats, manufacturers who vied to be close to...
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Status Auto Care Inc. Boat, motorcycle, and car wash in Red Hook. Open Monday-Saturday (10-7pm) Phone Number: (718) 600-4665 Address: 56 Huntington St, Brooklyn, NY 11231 Facebook: ...
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William Yorke was an artist who lived on a boat in the Erie Basin with his wife, son, and two dogs in 1882. After his boat was destroyed in a steamboat accident and Yorke was found living in a hut by the waterfront with his family, his story was...
