NY Harbor police rescue a black cat hanging on for life on the rudder of a steamship. He was taken aboard the police boat to recuperate but was not warmly greeted by Fanny. Fanny was another cat who had made the boat her home when it was being...

A Red Hook cat invaded the British steamship BADAGERY while the vessel was docked in Erie Basin and proceeded to terrorize the small members of the crew.  Katy Cockroach, the cook’s speckled hen, stopped laying eggs and became “lean and...

Tossed and damaged by strong winds the ANDROMEDA, a four-masted British bark out of Belfast, Ireland arrived at the Erie Basin with tattered sails. The passage was hard on the crew: “Frank Dunn a seaman apprentice, fell from the rigging and...

In The Brooklyn  Standard Union’s column about  reader’s interesting experiences, Gustave tells how a BIG cat gave him the shock of his life when he visited a tramp steamer docked in Erie Basin.  (A tramp steamer is ship without a fixed...

Sample No. 2, Marked from 017 Erie Basin. Found: Numerous small worms resembling round worms, 0r Nematodes. Numerous diatoms, Oogonia, Conferva filaments, bits of wood, considerable plant epidermis. Ulothrix, Botryococcus braunii, Schizomeris...

Few people other than those who have business there are acquainted, except by name, with the part of South Brooklyn known as Erie Basin. Yet it is one of the most interesting sections of this city and one that is never so inactive as not to be well...

Brooklyn Life  reporter Addison Steele, describes in 1897 the harvesting and pickling of mussles growing on the ramains of ship in Erie basin: A large part of the bull of the sunken Ailsa has been removed from the spot where she went...

Newly married and recently widowed in 1890 , Jennie Chandler Young began working as a photojournalist to support herself and her two-month old son. Using the moniker "Brooklyn Girl," she worked until 1915 for the  New York Herald  as a...

"An aerial view made from an American Airlines plane of Erie Basin where 15 ships are shown ready to load crated war material crammed on piers.  Vividly reflected in the photo is the manner in which vital war aid for Britain is flowing speedily...