By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Huge waves crashing down on the deck as hail, steamers burning through their coal just to stay in place against the wind, ships being thrashed by the storm and everything, and everyone, frozen and encrusted in ice. These are the stories that the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sailors have long looked to the sky for clues to the impending weather. In the morning, when the sun was low in the sky, a red sky was understood to mean that a storm was likely. Just don't tell it to the judge. On November 10, 1939, the seagoing...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Wrecks in Storm's Wake Great Damage Wrought All Along the Coast .... Tremendous damage was wrought all along the coast from Cape May to Boston by the northeast gale, which continued yesterday with unabated fury. .... Cellars and Sewers Flooded. .......
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Temperatures dropped so low in the winter of 1893 that business was frozen to a standstill. Six hundred canal boats, schooners, brigs and barks were locked by ice in Red Hook's Atlantic and Erie Basins. This was less of an inconvenience for the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
There is a lively social scene at this place! Red Hook Neighborhood Senior Center Maria Sanchez, Director 120 W. 9th Street Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231 O.718.269.0519 msanchez@raices.us Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Breakfast provided...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hurricane Sandy hit Brooklyn around 8pm on October 29, 2012. which caused devastating flooding in Red Hook. The following 32 interviews are part of a project " Sandy: Tell Your Story" recorded by Emergency Management Methodology Partners (EMMP) in...
This map was researched, created and generously shared with the Red Hook community by Red Hook resident Jim McMahon who wanted to help his neighbors recover from Hurricane Sandy and prepare for future floods. Jim donated the map for fundraisers, and...
2013 Sandy Flood saline impacted tree survey for the Parks Department
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
1844 Coastal Survey. Red Hook's watery past has a bearing on how this place floods in current times. This map shows the topography at the end of Red Hook's tide mill pond era, meaning that much of what is today called Red Hook is still...
