By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the 1830s to 1965 Castle Williams on Governors Island served as a military prison. Over the years prisoners have attempted to escape by swimming across the Buttermilk Channel to Red Hook. Text from two Articles Click on the images at bottom for...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Photographs of the Todd Shipyard at the time of its demolition in 2006 and a short company history are posted on the LTV Squad website The group describes themselves as "a NYC based multidisciplinary group focused on exploring, photography,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hookers' memories of swimming off the docks as kids. The first few are from chat on southbrooklyn.net in 2004, the last one is from Facebook, 2024 "I remember swimming at the pool and at the docks, and the row boat over to White Rock...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
R. J. Eckard, vice president and research director of C. A. Woolsley Paint and Color Co., had a large library of barnacles. The collection, started in the 1940s, was used to develop barnacle resistant paint that would ward off the many species...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Atlantic Oil Company, Incorporated May 1853 Capital $120,000 ...Van Dyke St Red Hook Point. President James Struthers [listed under heading Oil and Candle Companies]
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Epidemics, New York in the mid-1800s knew them too well. Cholera was one of the city's biggest killers. The ports of New York Harbor were the economic engines of the region, but the all important shipping was also how outbreaks spread across the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the summer of 1929, Olaf the cat, mascot of the brand new South American freight and passenger ship, SUD AMERICANA, was swept overboard during a storm. Captain Bjor Boettger and his Norwegian crew immediately went into action. ...
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"Flambeau is owned by Mr. FORBES, of Boston, and is intended for the China Seas. The dimensions of the hull, which was built by LAWRENCE & FOULKS, are one hundred and sixty-five feet keel; one hundred and eighty feet on deck; breadth,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Wandering cows? Jostled milk? How did Buttermilk Channel, the water between Red Hook and Governor's Island, get its name? Contemporary explanations usually fall into two camps. We found an older one. 1) Dairy farmers shipped their milk to...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Richards Street was named after Col. Daniel Richards . Richards was a visionary developer who set Red Hook on the path to becoming one of the world's major commercial ports. He moved to Brooklyn from upstate New York after seeing the powerful...
