By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook's newest farm site, the 1.1 acre education farm at Red Hook Houses West was built in 2013 through a collaboration with Added Value (a nonprofit which closed in late 2018 and whose farms are now run by the Red Hook Initiative ), the Mayor's...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Formerly an asphalt baseball field, Red Hook Community Farm was established in 2001 and is now a thriving 2.75 acre production and compost site that supplies their Farmers Market. It is the creation of Added Value, a nonprofit which ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Scroll to the bottom to hear PortSide's interview with Sunny Balzano. Sunny Balzano was the beloved owner of a legendary bar, some 90 years old, which became known as Sunny’s. He died March 10, 2016 which prompted an outpouring of grief,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Widow Jane Distillery From their site: "As great whiskey distillers throughout the world — from Kentucky to Scotland — have long known, it takes sweet water from tough rock to make great whiskey. And, that’s what Widow Jane Heirloom Whiskey,...
Street address: 214 Conover St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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" We have mostly men here - very few women. No unattached women permitted at the bar. That’s a simple way of preventing trouble." One of the best known watering holes in Red Hook was the Shaft Alley saloon. Fortune magazine, in a 1937 essay...
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Vladi Banjac of Estate4 with a large stripped bass that he caught off the foot of Wolcott Street. Large in the background is the Queen Mary 2, which docks at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in the Atlantic Basin.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A shopping tour in Italian Red Hook included all types of food: snails, fresh vegetables, rabbit, squab, octopus, cheese, olive oil, beans, and garlic. Throughout the 1900s , Red Hook had a very large Italian population, many of whom earned their...
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Originally from Norway, Otto A. Hansen came to the United States as a young man. After serving in WWII, he opened a bar at 117 Columbia Street. The bar was very popular with sailors; Otto would often go down to the docks and give them comical...
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During Prohibition (1920 -1933), the many, bustling working piers of Red Hook made this neighborhood a good place for smugglers to move large quantities of alcohol, often using innovative speed boats to evade federal agents. On June 3, 1922, at the...
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" All day naked youngsters are perched on these logs, watching their bait, chasing each other over the slippery lumber or diving and paddling in the water." A story about naked boys in the late 1800s who fish for crabs among the millions of...
