Bay Street (in center of view), between Henry (left) and Clinton Streets (right), showing the Red Hook Play Center as seen from the grain elevator at the foot of Columbia Street. The portion of Henry Street Basin shown running up to Bay Street was...
Street address: Bay Street & Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
At the end of the 1800s, New York City docked floating pools, known as baths, along the Brooklyn water front to provide relief from the summer heat. They were protected spaces to swim in the river. Bath No. 4 was docked at the foot...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This facility was landmarked in 2008. This 47 page report was submitted to the Landmarks Preservation Commission in an effort to give the Red Hook Play Center official landmark status. The site included the former diving (now wading)...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Kids have been swimming off the piers of Red Hook probably ever since the piers existed. It is not common today in part because of the increasing awareness that the polluted water, particularly after a rain fall, is a health hazard. "Taking a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Vladi Banjac of Estate4 with a large stripped bass that he caught off the foot of Wolcott Street. Large in the background is the Queen Mary 2, which docks at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in the Atlantic Basin.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Rum-Runners smuggling liquor on motor boat. The boat's development was an economic one, the rum runners needed faster boats! During the Prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. (1920-1933) rum and other hard liqueurs were frequently smuggled in by boat....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
" All day naked youngsters are perched on these logs, watching their bait, chasing each other over the slippery lumber or diving and paddling in the water." A story about naked boys in the late 1800s who fish for crabs among the millions of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A personal account of boxer Petros M. Spanakos' time spent growing up and training in Red Hook during the 1950s.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
On June 11, 1852 a prize fight was waged between Michael Welsh and James Cramer on Red Hook Point. It was attended by a crowd of approximately 600-700 people. The one police officer on the scene realized that he could not stop the event by himself...
