By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Grain elevators once towered in Atlantic Basin, as can be seen in the etching published in Harper's Magazine in 1871. They transfered grain from ship to warehouse or ship to ship, and stored grain withing themselves. Canal boats traveled down...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A drawing of the Atlantic Basin's warehouse and docks by Wade, for Gleason's Pictorial , 1851. The tall structures shown by the water's edge at right are grain elevators, used to move loose grain from the ship to the warehouse.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
An aerial view of Erie Basin taken in 1920 by Perry Loomis Sperr. In the crook of the breakwater that protects the basin's piers is Thos. A. Crane's Sons' dry dock. The white building at the center rear of the view is the New York State Barge Canal...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Clinton Wharf is on the southwest side of Atlantic Basin. It was probably named in honor of DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York and father of the Erie Canal. The three piers shown [indicated in yellow] were all covered. Funk-Edye & Co.,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In November of 1872, a tall wooden grain elevator and several warehouse buildings of the Atlantic Docks burnt to the ground in a great fire which was seen for miles. Six hundred thousand bushels of wheat, oats and barley burned. New York Herald,...
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...
