Newspaper photo of the shacks of Red Hooks "Tin City" or shanty towm (It went by several other names, such as Hoover City, and Orkenen Sur). The large building on the right is the Sapolin Paint Company factory (now Treasure Island) on...

Longtime Red Hook resident and historian recalls poor folks living in slum building when he lived on 113 Bush Street and the neighboring "Tin City" or "Hoover City" shanties of the 1930s for the Red Hook Star Review.

Red Hook Point in the mid-1800s was just beginning to be developed. In an irregular way, shanties dotted the shoreline.  Some of the residents of these homes would sit under their awnings scanning the waters for loose timbers and other prizes...

A building boom was expected for Red Hook Point in 1851. New streets were being constructed and a cotton mill was planned. Cotton was grown in the South but since the opening of the Atlantic Docks, in 1845, shiploads were coming to Red Hook to...

"In a neighborhood where the Puerto Rican presence is all but completely forgotten, this paper tells the story of the last efforts of the pioneros of the community in trying to preserve their way of life against the rapid urban development that...

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,...