The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal (BCT)  opened in 2006 in Atlantic Basin, and according to the official website  "offers all the services and comforts expected from a world-class cruise facility including 200,000 square feet of flexible...

The O'Connell organization is one of the largest property owners in Red Hook and owns inland and waterfront property. They have a small marina for recreational vessels. The marina generally has no vacancies.

While fueling the large array of boats that are clients of American Petroleum & Transport, Captain Rich Naruszewicz also delivers harbor gossip and wisecracks. Read about him in Professional Mariner here . Listen to his oral history about his...

Buchanan Marine is a tenant of the Erie Basin Bargeport. In the New York Harbor their barges move 6 million tons of aggregate used to make concrete and asphalt yearly.

Another example of a family-owned marine company of long standing is Reinauer (formally known as Reinauer Transportation Companiess or RTC).  Bert Reinauer established the company in 1923. The company soon faced, and survived, the Great...

Hughes Marine Hughes Bros. Erie Basin Bargeport Billing themselves a “Clearinghouse for Marine Difficulties” and in operation since 1894, Hughes Brothers is Red Hook’s oldest marine firm. They beat by four years Vane Brothers, founded in...

Vane Line Bunkering (sometimes called Vane Brothers) at the foot of Red Hook’s Court Street in the Gowanus Bay, occupies part of the site of the former Ira S. Bushey & Sons facility. The property is owned by Buckeye who also owns and operates...

On June 6th, 1896 George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen departed from New York's Battery in an 18 foot rowboat destination Europe. Their vessel The FOX, was an 18 foot surf boat was built on the New Jersey Shore, only powered by oars. It took the two men...

A list of the piers in Brooklyn, their location, length and occupants publishished in the Port of New York Annual Report of 1920. In the Red Hook area were: Ferry Slips , located at Hamilton Avenue, run by the Union Ferry Company, owned by New York...