PortSide NewYork acknowledges that we are on land and waterways that is Lenape territory, Lenapehoking. This is an intro to the people story of Red Hook, to the changing ethnic groups that lived and/or worked here roughly in the order of their...

Blacks were one of the first groups to arrive in Brooklyn during the Dutch colonial period, usually as slaves, though there were also freemen. To provide an overview of some early Black history, PortSide commissioned this article by Charles Foy...

Named for its ruddy colored soil, Red Hook was once a verdant wetlands etched by a branching network of tidal creeks. The Dutch who settled in Red Hook in the 17th century applied their knowledge of aquatic technology to the marshy landscape and...