By The Red Hook WaterStories team
On June 6th, 1896 George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen departed from New York's Battery in an 18 foot rowboat destination Europe. Their vessel The FOX, was an 18 foot surf boat was built on the New Jersey Shore, only powered by oars. It took the two men...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the Spring and Summer of 2019 most of the historic Lidgerwood building was torn down to make way a UPS e-commerce warehouse. Community action was not able to save the complete facade but as of a July 9, 2019 meeting, UPS has proposed...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Industries that would have never considerred hiring women for any sort of job quickly changed their tune during WWII. While men were overseas fighting, women of Brooklyn were contributing to the war effort, and their own financial needs, by making...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Lithograph of Bartlet & Greene's warehouses and grain elevators by Endicott & Co ca. 1880. The area depicted is around the foot of Furman Street, slightly outside Red Hook's current boundaries. In the late 1800s Brooklyn was described...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Vane Line Bunkering (sometimes called Vane Brothers) at the foot of Red Hook’s Court Street in the Gowanus Bay, occupies part of the site of the former Ira S. Bushey & Sons facility. The property is owned by Buckeye who also owns and operates...
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
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
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: ...
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New York Water Taxi (NYWT) has jaunty boats painted to evoke old-fashioned New York checker cabs, bright yellow with a trim of black and white checks. The company was founded in 2002 with backing from Douglas Durst. It was based from the start in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
While fueling the large array of boats that are clients of American Petroleum & Transport, Captain Rich Naruszewicz also delivers harbor gossip and wisecracks. Read about him in Professional Mariner here . Listen to his oral history about his...
