By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sometime before 1689, Stephanus Van Cortlandt (d. 1700) erected a water-powered mill on his property, roughly at the corner of present day Dikeman and Van Brunt Streets. "The mill-pond, which was formed by damming off the creeks and natural ponds in...
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The Main entry for the Atlantic Basin Iron Works is HERE The Atlantic Basin Iron Works was a marine repair business located at 168 Van Brunt Street. In the early 1920s, Joseph F. Moran was Vice President and Joseph A. Moran, Treasurer. It is not yet...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ira S. Bushey & Sons' was a shipbuilder and oil company based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Remarkably, the company combined three different endeavors: a shipyard, a fuel terminal, and a fleet of vessels that moved fuel. Busheys built around 200...
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In Ira Bushey vs. USA (1968) the US Government was held liable for the conduct of a drunken sailor. After returning to the United States, a sailor on the Coast Guard cutter TAMAROA, then docked in a floating drydock in Bushey’s shipyard, turned...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Instead of building the Brooklyn Queens Expressway down Van Burnt Street, Robert Moses decided to build the highway through Hicks Street thus bisecting the Red Hook neighborhood while connecting the Brooklyn Bridge with the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel....
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The Red Hook Building Company was the brainchild of Col. Daniel Richards, a man who grew up in upstate New York. When the Erie Canal opened in 1825 and had a powerful economic effect, Richards was inspired. He saw great potential for Red Hook,...
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John F. McKenna was a wholesaler and retailer of lumber for shipyards, industry, and heavy construction. His office was at 74 Beard Street and his depot in the Erie Basin. Lumber was a major Red Hook business, ships filled with it, and large...
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in the early 1900s was headquartered at 116 Imlay Street, near the Atlantic Basin. The company, generally known as A&P, started in Manhattan in 1859 as a retailer of tea brought in by...
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A government sanctioned warehouse exclusively for fruit brandies was established at the Atlantic Dock January 1897. The warehouse, located at Imlay and Commerce streets was said to have a capacity of 10,000 barrels. Storage...
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In the 1850s, David P. Wild was the proprietor of the Bay House. He advertised that the bar was well supplied with wines, brandies, ales and cigars of the very best brands. He also outfitted fishermen with sail and row boats, tackle and bait. The...
