By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Ybarra Line began shipping olives, olive oil and other products from Spain to the United States at the beginning of the World War One. They became the preferred line for the shipping of olives by establishing a facility in Erie Basin “for...
This is a cropped portion of an aerial rendering of Brooklyn produced in 1905, from King's Views of New York . The text at the the bottom of the page reads: Busiest shipping-district in the world; N. Y. Dock Co., Atlantic Basin (40 acres), Erie...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Buchanan Marine is a tenant of the Erie Basin Bargeport. In the New York Harbor their barges move 6 million tons of aggregate used to make concrete and asphalt yearly. Website: buchananmarinelp.com See also: ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Reinauer is a family-owned marine company of long standing. (Formally known as Reinauer Transportation Companies or RTC). Bert Reinauer established the company in 1923. The company soon faced, and survived, the Great...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hughes Marine Hughes Bros. Erie Basin Bargeport Billing themselves a “Clearinghouse for Marine Difficulties” and in operation since 1894, Hughes Brothers is Red Hook’s oldest marine firm. They beat by four years Vane Brothers, founded in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The “Brooklyn Basin” is another one of those big plans for Red Hook that did not happen . The plan appeared on maps as if it was built - with no indication of its aspirational status - leading people in the 21 st century to think...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A huge fire destroyed Beard's Wharf in Erie Basin. The steamship Idlewild was destroyed, but luckily drifted away and prevented further damage to other ships.
Michael Gallagher, last General Manager of New York Shipyard, successor to Todd Shipyard, interviewed two weeks before selling the site to IKEA, talks about the shipyard, its history and final days. Gallagher represents the 5th generation of his...
John Gladsky is the definition of a colorful old salt. He is a marine salvor and the principal of Gladsky Marine and has an old-time Long Island accent. His oral history expresses nostalgia for the Todd Shipyard and criticism of public policy that...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A giant timber raft, 595 feet long and 55 feet wide, containing 22,000 ‘sticks’ (logs) was floated from the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia to the Erie Basin, Brooklyn, in 1888. An experiment in cost savings, it was calculated that if the wood was...
