When the Steamer Uranium, from Rotterdam, via Halifax docked at Atlantic Basin's Pier 38 in Red Hook, all the talk was about love. Love was what people were talking about when the Steamer Uranium docked at Pier 38, Atlantic Basin, Red Hook, in...
Fishing for Mackerel, Atlantic Dock, 1901
Red Hook was feasting on mackerel, late October of 1901. A school of the fish reportedly chased by bluefish and porpoises had found their way into Atlantic Basin. Fishermen lined the piers, catching the mackerel with makeshift poles and any kind of...
Outrageous: A narrow escape from slavery at Red Hook Point, 1850
In the summer of 1850, an African-American woman was abducted and brought to Red Hook Point - just below the Atlantic Dock - to be put on a schooner and brought to a Southern slave state. The captors told suspicious workers in the area that the...
The Brooklyn Bridge Red Hook Connection
The stone used to build the Brooklyn Bridge was stored on property belonging to the Atlantic Dock company between Wolcott and Dikeman streets. In an 1882 interview by The New York World, Mr. Martin, assistant engineer for the Brooklyn Bridge...
Erie Canal Boats: building bigger and bigger, 1817-1899
Ground was broken for the Erie Canal in 1817. When it was completed in 1825 it connected Lake Erie with the Hudson River allowing grain and other produce to travel in barges across New York and the Midwest to grain terminals in Red Hook - to...
How the Hamilton Avenue Ferry ended, 1942
In 1846 when Hamilton Avenue Ferry service to Manhattan started it was the only mass transit option to and from Red Hook, Brooklyn. This was no longer the case in 1914, street cars and elevated subway lines crossed the Brooklyn Bridge,...
Atlantic Docks, 1888 Etching
The Atlantic Dock etched by Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933) in 1888. A three-masted schooner tied up to a pier dominates the left side of the image
War Department Map of Port Facilities - Red Hook, 1932
1932 map of the piers and port businesses from Baltic Street (now called Cobble Hill) moving south through Atlantic Basin around past the Erie Basin, for the War Department / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The map indicates the businesses that...
"Smallest Ship that Ever Crossed the Atlantic Ocean: Log of the Ship-Rigged Ingersoll Metallic Life-Boat." 1866
In 1866, two men and a dog from Red Hook, set sail in a metal life-boat rigged like a sailing ship. Captain Hudson and Mr. Fitch were out to prove the seaworthiness of the lifeboat , RED WHITE AND BLUE, designed by Brooklyn's Oliver Roland...
Brooklyn's Bonded Warehouses, 1872
Bonded warehouse are places were foreign imports can be stored or manipulated without the payment of duty or taxes. The government only gets a piece of the action (duty) if and when the goods are sold domestically. Under the watchful eyes...