By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Don't be put off by a long line, their large and speedy staff cranks out sandwiches fast! This long-time family business slings huge portions to make great Italian hero sandwiches and has its own Red Hook WaterStories. Defonte's Sandwich...
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Elizabeth Street was renamed Beard Street Dec 14, 1865. Elizabeth was one of the older streets in Red Hook, officially listed at least as early as 1817. William Beard (1806-1886) was an Irish immigrant, who gained his initial success building rail...
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The 1903 America's Cup was won by the American sloop Reliance , who won all three races against the Irish challenger, Shamrock III . This was the 12th America's Cup. Reliance was designed by legenday Nathanael Herreshoff, and skippered by...
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Two views of the (R.C.) Church of the Visitation. T he parish of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in 1854 under the leadership of Bishop John Loughlin. According to the parish's website their first church, built in...
Street address: Richards Street & Visitation Place, Brooklyn, NY
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Ira S. Bushey and Sons, for three generations was a nationally significant business located in Brooklyn’s Red Hook. Moreover, the tanker MARY A. Whalen, homeship of PortSide NewYork was built for Ira S. Bushey. Ira S. Bushey was born in...
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The Atlantic Dock Company brought over workers from Germany to build the Atlantic Basin after the Irish workers who had begun the job demanded better pay. On April 15, 1846 newspapers reported on a riot between angry Irish and the newly...
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Transcript of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle , December 2. 1872 article: Origin and Progress of Tinkerville, Bunkervillle, Slab City, Sandy Bank and Texas — Peculiarities of Their Populations. There is scarcely a ward in Brooklyn does not...
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In 1951 the Brooklyn Daily Eagle ran a human interest story about Thomas Dunne, an Irish sailor on a comercial vessel who traveled the world but when docked in Red Hook, Brooklyn would not get off the boat for fear of getting lost in the city. Text...
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The area between Erie Basin and Columbia Street was home to a makeshift shantytown community known as Tin City, made up largely of unemployed and under-employed maritime workers in the 1920s and 30s. In the winter of 1932, The New York Sun ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The area between Erie Basin and Columbia Street was home to a makeshift shantytown community known as Tin City, made up largely of unemployed and under-employed maritime workers in the 1920s and 30s. In the winter of 1932, the Brooklyn Eagle...
