This is not the origin story for the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, created by Harold Gray and first published in 1924, but it is the story of a little orphan girl named Annie who was adopted by a wealthy family. In 1908, the Annie of our story...

Good Data Drives Policy In 2017, fourth graders at PS 15 in Red Hook collected street litter and litter data in the same area in three different litter surveys in their neighborhood.  After the first two litter surveys, the students used the...

Brooklyn Life  reporter Addison Steele, describes in 1897 the harvesting and pickling of mussles growing on the ramains of ship in Erie basin: A large part of the bull of the sunken Ailsa has been removed from the spot where she went...

This article from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, March 12, 1911, recounts the winter-time lives of Erie Canal barge families who winter in Erie Basin. Colonies of Cozy Canal Boats Cluster for Winter City of Inland Navigators Prepares for Annual...

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

A view north west across Governor's Island to Manhattan, as seen from Brooklyn. June 6, 1931. P. L. Sperr. The location is approximate

Street address: Governors Island, New York, N.Y.

Wolcott Street, north side, east of Conover Street, showing part of P. S. No. 30 and Christ Chapel.

Street address: Wolcott St. & Conover St., Brooklyn, NY

"Taking a Dive: These Red Hook youngsters, hit by the summer heat go down for the count from the piers at Atlantic Basin" (Caption from the Brooklyn section of the New York World-Telegram and the Sun). Kids have been swimming off the piers of Red...