By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Newly married and recently widowed in 1890 , Jennie Chandler Young began working as a photojournalist to support herself and her two-month old son. Using the moniker "Brooklyn Girl," she worked until 1915 for the New York Herald as a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Many artists have captured the likeness of PortSide NewYork’ s tanker the MARY WHALEN in a variety of styles from plein air paintings, illustrations and comic art. The artists in this collection are: Stephen Gardne r ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sunny's Bar started out as catering to longshoremen, and hung on as the employment in Red Hook changed Sunny Balzano inherited the place in the 1990s and by dint of his personality turned it into a beloved Red Hook cultural gathering place....
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
This colorful tower was a crankshaft from a ship's engine. Specifically it is from a Baldwin Hamilton Engine. It was out of a ship that was broken up in a ship demolition yard Kearney NJ. Zach Stakis of Aeromotive Engineering bought a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the artist: In the spring of 2015 artist Jim Ebersole was invited by Portside NewYork to paint and draw the Mary A. Whalen and her surroundings during the last weeks of her time inside the Red Hook Container Terminal. He spent several days...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Paul Morris artist: Sound of Pier #44 From the artist: I'm a NYC based photographic artist who is reconstructing reality. As I see these images, my mind immediately starts to restructure and rearrange them. Photography is my way of capturing these...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the artist Paul Morris: I'm a NYC based photographic artist who is reconstructing reality. As I see these images, my mind immediately starts to restructure and rearrange them. Photography is my way of capturing these images to create my art....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the artist Paul Morris: I'm a NYC based photographic artist who is reconstructing reality. As I see these images, my mind immediately starts to restructure and rearrange them. Photography is my way of capturing these images to create my art....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the artist Paul Morris: I'm a NYC based photographic artist who is reconstructing reality. As I see these images, my mind immediately starts to restructure and rearrange them. Photography is my way of capturing these images to create my art....
