By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook Ball Fields 155 Bay Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 718 722 3211 M-F 6am-8pm Sat 6am 4pm Sun closed The Red Hook ball fields are part of the 58 acre Red Hook Recreation Center. The fields host leagues and teams; currently 4 of the 9 fields are...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Valentino Park and Pier Between Coffey and Van Dyke Streets on Ferris St Brooklyn, NY 11231 From the NYC Parks website: "Valentino Pier was once the site of an active shipping industry. In the 1600s, the Red Hook district was settled by the Dutch....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Coffey Park 85 Richards Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 From the NYC Parks website: "Coffey Park, like nearby Coffey Street, is named for Michael J. Coffey (1839-1907), the former state senator, alderman, and district leader representing Red Hook. Coffey...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Advocating for the Red Hook Recreation Center and engaging in stewardship of Red Hook park spaces. Lists volunteer opportunities with New York Cares.
Street address: 155 Bay Street
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Provides sports, educational and physical fitness programs that empower and educate youth. Red Hook Rise was founded in 1994 by Red Hook natives, brothers Earl and Raymond Hall. Ray and Earl took the initiative to develop programs that strengthen...
Street address: 480 Van Brunt Street
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Soon after this photo is taken, the area at the left of the composite photo with just a few scattered houses in an uneven field will become the Red Hook Ball Fields and recreational area. Part of this area had been home to a shanty town, which went...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Donated by the Brooklyn Borough President's Office in 1998, this Deer Isle granite base and flagstaff honors firefighter Louis Valentino, Jr. It was fabricated by A. Ottavino The text on the New York City Parts Department's sign in the...
Cast in 1939 by Marugg, the architect of the pool building was Aymar Embury II. This was a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
" You Brooklynites who rush to Coney or Rockaway at the first blush of a hot day don't know your town so very well, " read an article in The Standard Union in 1929. " To be actually in the 'swim' you are just a nobody until you have visited...
