By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Grain elevators once towered in Atlantic Basin, as can be seen in the etching published in Harper's Magazine in 1871. They transfered grain from ship to warehouse or ship to ship, and stored grain withing themselves. Canal boats traveled down...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Construction on Pier 11 began in 1956. According to this newspaper article the three berth pier was estimated to cost nearly 7 million dollars. The project resulted in the demolition of thirteen Civil War era warehouses in the area. Text of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A drawing of the Atlantic Basin's warehouse and docks by Wade, for Gleason's Pictorial , 1851. The tall structures shown by the water's edge at right are grain elevators, used to move loose grain from the ship to the warehouse.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Clinton Wharf is on the southwest side of Atlantic Basin. It was probably named in honor of DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York and father of the Erie Canal. The three piers shown [indicated in yellow] were all covered. Funk-Edye & Co.,...
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Many tugboats waited out the rough seas of a 1906 winter storm in the protected waters of the Atlantic Basin. They were: ANNIE R. WOOD Carroll Brothers’ CARROLL BOYS and STERLING CASTOR EDWARD ANNAN F. A. Egerton’s tugs DEFIANCE and HIAWATHA...
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Frank Zotti, advertised in The New York Herald, October 1905 , that his U.S. Steamer BROOKLYN would debark from the Atlantic Basin to Fayal (Azores), Naples, and Genoa. Franjo (Frank) Zotti (1872–1947) immigrated to New York...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the late 1950s the Atlantic Basin was altered to make it more suited for cargo trucks. To do this roughly the back half of the basin was filled in and a new long metal warehouse shed, with raised loading docks, was built. This is what...
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The Brooklyn Standard Union in their Sixty-Fifth Anniversary edition, published in 1928, looked back at Col. Daniel Richards' dream of Atlantic Basin and called it a success. "Atlantic Basin a Dream Realized. The famous Atlantic Basin, $640000...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The New York Dock Buildings at 160 and 162 Imlay Street were built to be key structures in the New York Dock Company's early twentieth-century Atlantic Terminal operations. The buildings were abandoned for some time, but today are being re-purposed....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
An aerial view of Atlantic Basin, ca. 1965. In the foreground is the rail car float; several cargo ships are in the background. Neither the buildings nor the car float exists today.
