By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 2017, the inauguration of the NYC Ferry service was a big deal in the mind of Oscar Pagan , enough so that he drove from Staten Island back to Red Hook where he grew up to experience this big change for the neighborhood. He came to PortSide...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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Visitation Place in Red Hook, Brooklyn, was co-named Nancy Kearse Gooding Way on December 10, 2023. Red Hook in the 1970s was going through tough times. Longshoremen strikes idled many, and industries that depended on shipping then laid off...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Wraptor Restaurant And Bar opend in Red Hook in 2023. They offer both a place to dine-in and take-out. On their menu is a variety of: Drinks Fresh Juices Smoothies Coffee Makes Everything Better Sides Appetizers Salads Soups...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Community fridges provide free food to whoever needs it. There is a community fridge at 63 Seabring Street. It is stocked with meals every Tuesday afternoon around 2:30-3:00pm. The note on the fridge says: TAKE WHAT YOU WANT, LEAVE WHAT YOU CAN...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Second incarnation of beloved store Tiburon that operated as a pop-up for years. Here you'll find a deep inventory of Red Hook branded clothing and souvenirs, truckers caps, new designs, vintage clothes and objects, puzzles and board games. ...
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The # FinalNotice describes itself as "an interactive map app that exposes climate change, environmental racism & historical erasure on the Brooklyn waterfront" The project was initiated by Danielle Russo Performance Project in 2020...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Thousands of Red Hook youth in 1952 experienced being on the water thanks to a summertime excursion that took them up the river and out of the hot city for a day in the country. On August 26, 2500 kids loaded on to a boat docked at the...
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The 2022 public art project, @Work was by Zoe Beloff and Eric Muzzy. Portraits were made of essential workers in acrylic paint. These were then put on banners with QR codes linked to documentary films they made were essential workers describe...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Tom Teague, tugboat captain, took this photograph form the water of a fireboat battling the flames engulfing a Revere Sugar Refinery building at the foot of Richards Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, 1999. For most of the 1900s, raw sugar was refined at...
