Wolcott Street (left, foreground ) between Otsego Street (right) and Dwight Street (left). At the right foreground is Lorraine Street. In the background is Dwight Street going off at a tangent. The garage beyond the gas station is on the N.W. corner...
Street address: Wolcott St. & Otsego St., Brooklyn, NY
105-7 Lorraine Street, north side, between Hicks and Henry Streets. In the background are houses on Bush Street.
Street address: Lorraine Street & Hicks Street, Brooklyn, NY
Lorraine Street, east from Henry Street to Hamilton Avenue, showing in the foreground a recently constructed playground by the City of New York. Beyond it is the Sapolin Co. located on Clinton Street.
Street address: Lorraine Street & Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Floating grain elevators were used to move grain up, out of the holds of ships and barges and then top load the grain into storage bins on land or on other vessels. According to Henry R. Stiles in A History of the City of Brooklyn , Daniel Richards...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A giant timber raft, 595 feet long and 55 feet wide, containing 22,000 ‘sticks’ (logs) was floated from the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia to the Erie Basin, Brooklyn, in 1888. An experiment in cost savings, it was calculated that if the wood was...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Fibre Disintegrating Company had large factory in Red Hook making paper from bamboo during the period after the Civil War. Schooners sailed the bamboo from Jamaica to Brooklyn. The Journal of the Society of Arts reported that at...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Reliance Paint Co. had a facility at 50 Beard Street in the 1920s. The company manufactured structural and marine paint. Red Hook was home to many paint companies. Some of the others were the American Marine Paint Co. and C. A. Woolsley Paint...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
SouthSide Cycles 144 Centre Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 718 797 2310 T-F 10am-7pm Sat noon-7pm Motorcycle repair and fabrication shop. http://www.motorcyclefabricationbrooklyn.com/
Street address: 144 Centre Street
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Phone: 718 596 2225. Hours: Open daily 11am-6pm. Kempton & Co. offer beautifully designed and crafted handbags, beach bags, diaper bags, and accessories.
Street address: 390 Van Brunt Street
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
IKEA IKEA offers Swedish-designed furniture and houseware, designs for kitchens and bathrooms and a food court. This IKEA also has an ATM on the second floor. The Brooklyn store of this international retailer has some unusual and spectacular...
Street address: 1 Beard Street
