By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ramon Colon recounts his experience of traveling by boat to Brooklyn. He also discusses why Brooklyn Puerto Ricans often moved to 'El Barrio' instead of staying in Brooklyn. Transcription of interview: His arrival to Brooklyn. “I came by ship. By...
A timeline of the Norwegian community in New York and Brooklyn has been wriiten by Lars Nilsen of the Norwegian Immigrants Association and can be found on his website:
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A fire destroyed the property of five families living in shanties by the water at Red Hook Point, June 23, 1873. "The locality in question is a low section of made ground lying between King, Columbia and Richard streets, and is built upon by...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
On June 11, 1852 a prize fight was waged between Michael Welsh and James Cramer on Red Hook Point. It was attended by a crowd of approximately 600-700 people. The one police officer on the scene realized that he could not stop the event by himself...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A former "Pointer" recalls his childhood growing up in the Erie Basin and the sometimes heated relationship between the "Pointers" and the "Creekers." A reference in the 1890s sugest that terms go back as far as the 1840s. Pointers lived in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Todd Shipyards started life in Brooklyn, in 1869, as Handren and Robins. After Handren's death in 1892, it became the J. N. Robins Co. and then, after merging with the Erie Basin Dry Dock Company, which had been established by Delamater Iron Works,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Divine Burtis, Jr, born in 1802 near Huntington Long Island and died in Brooklyn on October 7, 1896 a respected ship builder. He is buried in Greeenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. In the historical record, there a bit of inconsistency as to whether...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The GMD Shipyard, now at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was established in Red Hook in 1975 as General Marine Diesel. Founders Carl Gomez and Manuel Martinez started the business as a machine shop at 528 Columbia St., primarily serving ships being...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Victoria Hofmo, founder of the Scandinavian East Coast Museum, which contains thousands of items, also directs the annual Viking Fest, a celebration of Scandinavian culture with music and a replica of a Viking ship. "The waterfront is what...
"In a neighborhood where the Puerto Rican presence is all but completely forgotten, this paper tells the story of the last efforts of the pioneros of the community in trying to preserve their way of life against the rapid urban development that...
