By The Red Hook WaterStories team
NYU Graduate students working on their capstone thesis had as their client Councilmember Alexa Avilés and created a report and recommendations on the "Revitalization of the South Brooklyn Waterfront" responding to the Brooklyn Marine Terminal...
The premier of this film was on May 29, 2025 with an open discussion afterwards. This occurred on the Waterfront Museum Barge in Red Hook, co-hosted by them and PortSide NewYork. More screenings are being planned for June 2025. This film was created...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook Containerport Terminal, a joint effort by the city and state of New York and the Port Authority, opened for business, July 6, 1981. Located adjacent to Atlantic Basin, its first cargo was coffee. Click here to see more about the Red...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Lehigh Maritime arrived in Red Hook as friends of PortSide, first by tying up their tug CORNELL alongside our ship MARY A. WHALEN when we were in the containerport on Pier 9B. After we moved out of the port to Pier 11 in 2015, Lehigh joined us...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In June of 1897 the newly built Pilotboat NEW YORK, tied up at the Atlantic Docks to prepare for its first day of service. The steel vessel was built at Harlan and Wolf’s yards at Wilmington. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
WHAT a thrill!! Surprise visit by two relatives of Ira Bushey who had our ship Mary Whalen built! First Busheys we ever met! Here are sisters Lorraine Novosad and Jamie Russo , Ira's great nieces. We learned alot (did you know that...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Text of William Bakers obit in the Brooklyn Eagle, April 11, 1940 "William J. Baker Red Hook Native For 40 Years Operated "Billy' Baker's Boathouse - Founded Yacht Club William J. Baker, one of the best know residents of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Carolina Salguero, PortSide’s Executive Director, narrated a tour covering the history of Red Hook’s working waterfront (docks) and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal process during a free public sail we offered as part of our visiting vessel...
A History of Red Hook Norman Brouwer, noted maritime historian - the man who basically wrote THE guides to historic ships and some of our national preservation standards for them - graciously wrote this maritime history of Red Hook for...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the afternoon of June 24, 1924, the Egremont Castle, a 9,000-ton capacity oil ship of the Union Castle line was being loaded when the ship’s winch seized while lowering a 100-gallon drum of gasoline causing its load suddenly jerk upwards....
