By The Red Hook WaterStories team
One modern maritime business works in the waters off Red Hook without docking here, that is New York State Marine Highway, usually referred to in the business as "Marine Highway." They operate tugs and barges, and in 2016, requested...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey is a very large bi-state agency that runs airports, bus terminals, bridges, the World Trade Center, the maritime ports in New York and New Jersey and more. It was founded in 1921 to create a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The City announced plans to completely take over Atlantic Basin from the Port Authority on May 14, 2024. As of that news, this site is being replanned along with the larger Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT). Atlantic Basin has been...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Greater New York Marine Transportation is a small tug and barge company that is a tenant of the Erie Basin Bargeport. Greater New York Marine has one oil barge and two tugs (EASTERN DAWN, THE DORY) which deliver fuel products with the barges and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The LOUJAINE is docked in the GBX Company's section of Erie Basin. Previously named the ABU LOUJAINE, and before that the BAHMA, she was built in 1966, in Nagoya, Japan for the Saudi Arabian company Arabian Bulk Trade. In the 1980s the ship...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This article from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, March 12, 1911, recounts the winter-time lives of Erie Canal barge families who winter in Erie Basin. Colonies of Cozy Canal Boats Cluster for Winter City of Inland Navigators Prepares for Annual...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This green buoy is one of a series that marks the north/west side of Buttermilk Channel. The green color and odd number (5) indicates to mariners that they should keep it on their port (left) side as they are heading north in the channel. This...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This buoy is on the south side of the main channel connecting the East River and upper New York Harbor. [See U.S. Coast Pilot 2, 45th ed., 2016, pars. 270-286 ] It is a red buoy, telling mariners to keep it on their starboard (right) side as they...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This buoy is at the southwest end of the Buttermilk Channel. It is green and conical, so it tells mariners to keep it on their port (left) side as they are heading north, into the channel. See In The Water for more information on navigating the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This buoy notes the north end of the Bay Ridge Channel. To the south of the buoy are the Gowanus and Bay Ridge Flats, which are too shallow for commercial ships to traverse. This is a green buoy, which indicates to mariners to stay to keep it on...
