By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Wrecks in Storm's Wake Great Damage Wrought All Along the Coast .... Tremendous damage was wrought all along the coast from Cape May to Boston by the northeast gale, which continued yesterday with unabated fury. .... Cellars and Sewers Flooded. .......
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The AMERICAN TURTLE was the first submarine used in war. It was in 1776, not far from Red Hook. Invented by David Bushnell, the one-man hand-propelled craft was designed to attach an underwater time bomb to an enemy vessel. On a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Yachts and party boats docked in the Atlantic Basin, 2016
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Click here for a curated tour through Red Hook WaterStories' collection about Atlantic Basin. The construction of Atlantic Docks in the late 1840's jumpstarted the development of Red Hook. The facility was so innovative, large and such an...
Bergen Hill once stood tall in Brooklyn, before developers had it carted away for fill to make the Atlantic Docks of Red Hook. Looking at historic maps from 1775, 1837 and 2004 cartographer Eymund Diegel determined that the hill, which was in...
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PortSide NewYork created this Red Hook WaterStories product. PortSide is a maritime non-profit founded in Red Hook in 2005. Our goal is to create a waterfront center with a landing for boats, a home for the MARY A. WHALEN, and more programs and...
Street address: Atlantic Basin Pier 11. Closest corner is Pioneer and Conover Streets.
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The City announced plans to completely take over Atlantic Basin from the Port Authority on May 14, 2024. As of that news, this site is being replanned along with the larger Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT). Atlantic Basin has been...
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The Hamilton Avenue Ferry was established in 1846. It was run by the Union Ferry Company, who also ran the Fulton Ferry at that time. A major destination was a new upmarket cemetery. The ferry offered a “direct approach by way of the Gowanus...
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All was not peaceful on the new Hamilton Avenue Ferry. People, particularly in the evening, were sprawling out across the benches, and extra deckhands were hired to keep the order. One of the directors suggested adding dividing armrests, but the...
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In 1890, Mrs. A. M. Hamilton, a widow, was interviewed in Atlantic Basin, and celebrated by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as being equal to any man running a canal boat. Beginning in the mid-1820s, canal boats brought produce from the nation's...
