By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1950, Mrs. Callahan looked back at nearly 100 years of living in Red Hook. She remembers farm animals, the 'Meadows', streams, flooding and ice skating on a pond that formed where Coffey Park is now. ● … I was born in the old sixth ward...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Near Christmas time, 1915, a female reporter and an illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, visited a few of the many canal boats and barges moored for the winter in Erie Basin “in search of a story about holiday preparations and winter life.”...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This is an article about Canopis, the dog. Born in Red Hook, he was owned by a local fish dealer who fed him a steady diet of fish. According the the article, this diet led to him develop webbed feet and other sea-creature-like deformities. One day,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
On June 11, 1852 a prize fight was waged between Michael Welsh and James Cramer on Red Hook Point. It was attended by a crowd of approximately 600-700 people. The one police officer on the scene realized that he could not stop the event by himself...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Remembrances of life on Coffey and other streets in Red Hook. "Hello all you Red Hookers!!! My good friend… still lives on Coffey St. I live at Dikeman St. Graduated Visitation school June of 1949. We done most of our dancing in Sam's Bar on Beard...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hookers' memories of swimming off the docks as kids. "I remember swimming at the pool and at the docks, and the row boat over to White Rock and sugar from Sucrest, hanging out in Coffey Park and Barshow's junk yard, Christ chapel had father Fox...
