By The Red Hook WaterStories team
While fueling the large array of boats that are clients of American Petroleum & Transport, Captain Rich Naruszewicz also delivers harbor gossip and wisecracks. Read about him in Professional Mariner here . Listen to his oral history about his...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Atlantic Basin is Port Authority property. It is leased to the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). Two of the piers are operated under and NYCEDC program called DockNYC . DockNYC is operated by BillyBey, part of the NY Waterway...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
BOUCHARD TRANSPORTATION CO., INC. Incorporated 1918 – centennial in 2018 2020 bankruptcy 2021 company folded, assets sold off Ironically, just as the company started with a bang, another about 100 years later, arguably set off a chain of events...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal (BCT) opened in 2006 in Atlantic Basin, and according to the official website "offers all the services and comforts expected from a world-class cruise facility including 200,000 square feet of flexible...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Buchanan Marine is a tenant of the Erie Basin Bargeport. In the New York Harbor their barges move 6 million tons of aggregate used to make concrete and asphalt yearly.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The CHANDRA B is a 79 ft by 23 ft double-hull bunkering tanker and part of American Petroleum Transport's fleet of service vessels that work the New York Harbor. As part of APT's fleet, the CHANDRA B delivers fuel to many of the vessels in the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Greater New York Marine Transportation is a small tug and barge company that is a tenant of the Erie Basin Bargeport. Greater New York Marine has one oil barge and two tugs (EASTERN DAWN, THE DORY) which deliver fuel products with the barges and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hughes Marine Hughes Bros. Erie Basin Bargeport Billing themselves a “Clearinghouse for Marine Difficulties” and in operation since 1894, Hughes Brothers is Red Hook’s oldest marine firm. They beat by four years Vane Brothers, founded in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
One modern maritime business works in the waters off Red Hook without docking here, that is New York State Marine Highway, usually referred to in the business as "Marine Highway." They operate tugs and barges, and in 2016, requested...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
New York Water Taxi (NYWT) has jaunty boats painted to evoke old-fashioned New York checker cabs, bright yellow with a trim of black and white checks. The company was founded in 2002 with backing from Douglas Durst. It was based from the start in...
