By The Red Hook WaterStories team
At the farthest southwest point of Red Hook sits Valentino Park, a beautiful public space that looks out directly into the New York harbor, and is one of the best vantage points of the Statue of Liberty in Brooklyn. But before the Statue of Liberty,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Henry Onderdonk in his 1849 book: Revolutionary incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties: with an account of the Battle of Long Island and the British prisons and prison-ships at New York, includes a map of the Battle of Long Island, including the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
An archaeological assessment may be required by New York City if a proposed project might disturb historical materials such as Native American sites, historic burial places, or colonial-era foundations. A Phase 1A Assessment is a study of the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In Levi Hutchins' book "Autobiography of Levi Hutchins" published in 1865, he wrote about his experiences in the Battle of Brooklyn. Seleted text from his memoir is below: In the spring of 1776, after the evacuation of Boston, General Washington,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Henry Reed Stiles (1832 – 1902) was an American doctor and historian. He was one of the Founders of the Long Island Historical Society (which became the Brooklyn Historical Society and then merged with the Brooklyn Public Library to become the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A map of New York Bay and Harbor and the environs to which has been added notations indicating the positions of troops and fleets at the Battle of Long Island, 1776. The 1845 base map is a trigonometrical survey made under the direction...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A plan of New York Island, part of Long Island, Staten Island & east New Jersey, with a particular description of the engagement on the woody heights of Long Island, between Flatbush and Brooklyn on the 27th of August 1776. This map was made by...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
On this map, believed to date from 1776, British and Loyalist troops are depicted in Red while Hessian troops are in Blue. From the location of some of the troops, for example De Lancey's Brigade which was raised in September 1776 on Long Island, we...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Three maps of the Battle of Brooklyn (aka the Battle of Long Island) in the collection of the New York Public Library. "Map of Brooklyn at the time of the Revolutionary War" by Jeremiah Johnson (1768-1852) published in 1858. "Map of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This map, published ca. 1834, shows location of of the American Army and fortifications in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens at the start of the Battle of Long Island (aka Battle of Brooklyn) August 27th 1776. In the waters off of Red Hook,...
