By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Zoltán Glück was a graduate student when Sandy hit, and he worked with Occupy Sandy doing recovery work in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Occupy Sandy, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, was a major and innovative force for Sandy recovery in New...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Matt Kraushar, dubbed “Medical Matt,” set up a Red Hook Sandy recovery medical team. He was a medical student living on Van Brunt Street when Sandy hit. He learned from Katrina that medical issues that were managed under normal conditions...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hurricane Sandy hit New York with great force and water on October 29, 2012. The following day, João de Souza photographed the aftermath and the first efforts of cleaning up and pumping out in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Below is a curated...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Camille Casaretti, president of the community education council 15 (cec15), stopped by to see how the sign and map could be used for educating school groups. She was greeted by Portside executive director Carolina Salguero dressed as bioluminescence...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Carolina Salguero and PortSide NewYork won a White House “Champions of Change award in 2013 for protecting the MARY A. WHALEN from the storm and then offering Sandy recovery services to Red Hook. The Obama administration was smart and used the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"Thousands of the Poor Enjoy the Fresh Air on the Piers" was the lede for a July 1892 article in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The article describes the North and South piers of the Atlantic Basin as crowded in the hot Summer...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Alexandra Dettori opened up her catering and event space business in Red Hook in 2022. They offer both on premise and off premise catering. Their website says: "No event is too small or vision to bold at AD Catering and Events,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Local 1814, International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO commemorated their 20 th anniversary in 1974 with a publication celebrating their accomplishments and with a positive outlook for the future. Higher wages, job security, health...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This image is not an actual photograph but a rendering created by the DALL-E AI system following the instructions given to it by Jefe (a real person). He requested that it create: "Boats leaving the dock in Red Hook Brooklyn, at sunrise in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the mid-1800s, lots of kinds of cargo were carried by canal boats from the U.S. inland to Red Hook to be shipped out around the world or to be used in local manufacturing. Grain was one of the largest imports, but some canal boats regularly...
