By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1846 when Hamilton Avenue Ferry service to Manhattan started it was the only mass transit option to and from Red Hook, Brooklyn. This was no longer the case in 1914, street cars and elevated subway lines crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, and the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1897, commuters could take a streetcar right to the Hamilton Avenue Ferry. From there it was an easy walk to the businesses clustered around Atlantic Basin. Streetcars also ran to the similarly busy Erie Basin. This according to the Brooklyn...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
All was not peaceful on the new Hamilton Avenue Ferry. People, particularly in the evening, were sprawling out across the benches, and extra deckhands were hired to keep the order. One of the directors suggested adding dividing armrests, but the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn as seen from Union Street, 1924.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
An aerial view of the Hamilton Avenue Ferry house in Red Hook that includes several piers and other waterfront buildings. The image was taken in 1934 by a Daily Eagle photographer, likely for a story of how the building was condemned and due...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A stereoscopic view of the Hamilton Avenue Ferry house. For more on the history of the Hamiloton Avenue Ferry see the entries: How the Hamilton Avenue Ferry got started, 1846 How the Hamilton Avenue Ferry ended, 1942 For more images of the ferry...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hamilton Avenue Ferry house in Red Hook with two horse-drawn wagons and several people in the foreground.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1922, New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, a strong advocate for expanding the subways, held public hearings on the topic. George T. McQuade of Coastwise Lumber & Supply Co. supported a line that would run down Hicks and Lorraine Streets in Red...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Instead of building the Brooklyn Queens Expressway down Van Burnt Street, Robert Moses decided to build the highway through Hicks Street thus bisecting the Red Hook neighborhood while connecting the Brooklyn Bridge with the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A reader wrote to the editor of the Standard Union asking about a potential Red Hook subway connection. The editor responded that the subway project was only a tentative proposal. Text of Q&A in the Brooklyn Standard Union, September 7, 1923 To...
