By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Our ship MARY A. WHALEN is famous in maritime law. That’s because American admiralty law is a lot fairer thanks to a case involving the MARY A. WHALEN, the 1975 Supreme Court decision U.S. vs Reliable Transfer. As a nation, we can be thankful that...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The door at 349 Van Brunt is a different sort of portal. Since 2006, it has celebrated a vision of Red Hook in mosaics. Anne Griepenberg explained its origin story on Facebook: "My friend Max Airborne was creating mosaics & since...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Here's a story about a color that involves our oil tanker, high fashion, interior design and Egypt. Yes, we said that. The MARY A WHALEN, originally the S.T. KIDDOO, was launched in 1938. In the many years since, her walls (bulkheads in ship...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Down the Gowanus is a modern folk song by Steve Suffet. The Gowanus Canal is a man-made industrial water way built and streightened in the 1860s from an existing creek. The Gowanus has played a valuable role in Brooklyn's...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
“So little opportunity have women had hitherto for demonstrating their capability for business, that it can only be indicated by the success of some particular woman in some unusual and exceptional pursuit; and I know of no better illustration...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This is not the origin story for the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, created by Harold Gray and first published in 1924, but it is the story of a little orphan girl named Annie who was adopted by a wealthy family. In 1908, the Annie of our story...
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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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...
