Ducks in Dirty Water, 2018
A few ducks and geese are often to be found in the waters of Atlantic Basin in the the Spring and Summer. The ducks in this video, shot from the aft end of the MARY WHALEN, are swimming in water near the City's combined sewer overflow pipe. The...
Childhood's Happy Days Recalled by Mrs. Callahan, Red Hook's 'Oldest Resident’, 1950
In 1950, Mrs. Callahan, born in 1853 looked back at nearly 100 years of living in Red Hook. She remembered farm animals, the 'Meadows', streams, flooding and ice skating on a pond that formed where Coffey Park is now. ● … I was born in the old...
Maritime Messaging: Red Hook, 2017
"Maritime Messaging" 10/29/17 a collaboration between artist Katherine Behar, PortSide and Pioneer Works. PortSide contributed all the text from RHWS which Behar put through a neural network to "teach water to talk." A video presented moving water,...
Red Hook Lines by Artist Ester Grossi, 2017
The maritime language is an international language, which helped foster the following art. One day in November 2017, a man came down the pier and saw our sign about volunteering. He introduced himself saying "I’m a captain in Rome." Federico...
Erie Basin Property Maps, 2017
Maps showing the current property lines of IKEA, Thor Equities, and the Erie Basin Bargeport in the Erie Basin. We include these to show how there can be private property under water in general, and that the Erie Basin waterspace is not a public...
Swallows in Red Hook
Swallows live under the piers with fendering (wooden cross piece's of piers) and like the dock lines and mast and stack stays on the Mary Whalen They arrive around April 9 and leave around August 23 Swallow at a porthole of the MARY A WHALEN, June...
Buffleheads In Atlantic Basin
Buoyant, monogamous, punctual, small! Meet the bufflehead, our winter duck friends in Atlantic Basin, Red Hook, and Brooklyn
Fairway Resiliency
The Fairway food market, located in the New York Stores aka Red Hook Stores building built as a warehouse for Erie Basin developer William Beard in 1869, flooded during super-storm Sandy. Afterwards, to make the place more resilient for the next...
NEW YORK HARBOR COLLECTION AND REMOVAL OF DRIFT PROJECT
A report produced by Raber Associates for the U.S. Corps of Engineers in 1984, provides some of the best scholarly research into Brooklyn's water front including Atlantic and Erie Basins in Red Hook. Broadly, the subjects covered in the report are:...