By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1928, Joseph Stephens, an employee of Beard's Erie Basin, tripped on a winch handle, fell and hurt his arm. The State Industrial Board awarded him compensation for the days he was unable to work. Beard and the Travelers Insurance Company...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A 1918 photograph of the SS Kralingen. The ship was camouflaged in whites, blues, greys and black, making it a dazzel ship. The aim of the zebra stripe camouflage was not to make the ship hard to find, but to make it harder for enemies to accurately...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The company of Wortman & Hunterley were in the shipwright business, the making of wooden boats, on Red Hook Point. According to Hearnes' Brooklyn Directory of 1851, Isaac Wortman lived on Wolcott Street.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1851, John Meddiger of Red Hook Point was employed as a sailmaker. In the 1850s most of the ships using Red Hook's ports, as elsewhere, were tall masted, wind powered vessels. "Meddiger John, sailmaker Red Hook Point"
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Officers of the Atlantic Dock Company as listed in Hearnes' Brooklyn City Directory , 1851 Atlantic Dock Company. Wm H Imlay, President H. Alexander, jr., Secretary and Treas'r DIRECTORS William H Imlay Elihu Townsend W E Imlay...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The New York State legislature amended a law in 1841 to allow Red Hook waterfront property owners to build docks, wharves, piers, and bulkheads into the water beyond their property lines.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Jim Perkins recounted his experience of working on the TAMAROA, a Coast Guard cutter located in the Bushey Shipyard in Red Hook in an article published on the (now gone) website Jack's Joint, which called itself an unoffical Coast Guard Library....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the mid-1800s, before gas and electric powered refrigerators, natural ice was cut from rivers and ponds and shipped into New York City to preserve food and cool drinks in homes, restaurants and for use in other commercial purposes. In the 1880s,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
H.P. Lovecraft's horror story about Red Hook. (Links to the full story can be found under "sources" below)
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A personal account of boxer Petros M. Spanakos' time spent growing up and training in Red Hook during the 1950s.
