By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ramberg Iron Works paid $650,000 to the receivers of the Atlantic Dock Company for eight and three quarter acres fronting the Buttermilk Channel at the foot of Coffey, Dykman, Sullivan and Wolcott Streets in 1918. The site was within the free...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Officers of the Atlantic Dock Company as listed in Hearnes' Brooklyn City Directory , 1851 Atlantic Dock Company. Wm H Imlay, President H. Alexander, jr., Secretary and Treas'r DIRECTORS William H Imlay Elihu Townsend W E Imlay...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1881, the Excelsior Stores grain warehouse and grain elevator in Atlantic Basin burned in a massive fire. Here is an article from The New York Herald , Monday, June 13, 1881, describing the conflagration: THE EXCELSIOR STORES BURNED. -- A...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Richards Street was named after Col. Daniel Richards. Richards was a visionary developer who set Red Hook on the path to becoming one of the world's major commercial ports. He moved to Brooklyn from upstate New York after seeing the powerful...
