By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Bridge is a suspended by four main steel wire cables. It became the first major bridge of its kind when it opened for service in May 1883 and it's unique design remains essentially the same today. The concept of suspending a bridge with...
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The Alex House Project According to their website the Alex House Project provides "A Holistic Approach to Parenting" The vision is "a world in which low-income families benefit from comprehensive supports, and young mothers, in particular,...
Street address: 76 Lorraine St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
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The short answer is Mary Agnes Whalen was Captain John Tabeling"s wife and mother to James Harold. They ran the Reliable Fuel Supply Co., the company that from 1962 to 1971 owned the ship launched in 1938 as the S.T. KIDDOO, In 1963 that ship was...
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Red Hook Container Port 70 Hamilton Street, Brooklyn, New York Services when ship in port - NOTE THIS IS FOR SEAFARERS ONLY The Red Hook Container Port is a restricted area. (718) 643-0914 +1 619 702 4703
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Columbia Kingdom Hall Jehovah's Witnesses also known as Red Hook Kingdom Hall Jehovah's Witnesses 423 Columbia Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 (718) 237-0026
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Red Hook community members created an emergency plan to cover the 72 HOURS BEFORE AND AFTER an emergency called Ready Red Hook . This plan - for all emergencies, not just floods - was created in the aftermath of the Sandy Hurricane, in...
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Three men, possibly stevedores, loading (or unloading) a large barrel on to (or off of) a freighter, sometimes around the the 1870s. The back of the photograph is inscribed "Atlantic Dock". The photograph is by George Bradford Brainerd,...
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The engine of the MARY A WHALEN is a Model 37 diesel engine manufactured by the Fairbanks-Morse company. Developed in the 1920s, the engine design was tried and true when MARY was built in 1938 (originally christened as the S.T. Kiddoo.) ...
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A cheat sheet for the bell and jingle code hangs in the fidley of the MARY A. WHALEN. It can be seen in the related entry Bells are Direction, Jingles are Speed which lays out the system. The bell and jingle code was used by the captain...
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Dee Shapiro began her career as a pattern painter and was included in the Pattern and Decoration at P.S. 1 in 1977. After exploring the Fibonacci Progression in color on graph paper and experimenting with paintings within a grid, she became...
