In 1890, Mrs. A. M. Hamilton, a widow, was interviewed in Atlantic Basin, and celebrated by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as being equal to any man running a canal boat. Beginning in the mid-1820s, canal boats brought produce from the nation's...
Dutch Kitchen Center
High modern style kitchen cabinets and other kitchen elements from Dutch designers. Tel (888) 209-5240 481 Van Brunt Street, opposite Fairway. Sun. - Mon. 10AM - 6PM
Street address: 481 Van Brunt St. Brooklyn, NY 11231
Red Hook Junk Dealer in the Toils, 1885
Frank Schmidt, known to the police as "Dutch Frank," a junk dealer operating in and around Red Hook Point faced trial for dealing in stolen goods, October 1855. Junk dealers made their living buying spare sails, ropes and old iron from...
Steamers Loading Exports in the Atlantic Basin : Post Card ca. 1900
"Steamers Loading Exports in the Atlantic Basin" One of a large series of picture postcards published by the Brooklyn Eagle in the early 1900s. In addition to steamers, numerous barges - both square and Dutch style of rounded ones - also fill...
“Blacks on the New York Waterfront During the American Revolution”
Blacks were one of the first groups to arrive in Brooklyn during the Dutch colonial period, usually as enslaved people, though there were also freemen. To provide an overview of some early Black history, PortSide commissioned this article by Charles...
Merechkatvikingh village
Native-American Lenape people were living in Red Hook long before the first Dutch colonialists arrived. In their language and terms, this was Lenapehoking. We would like to expand information on the Lenape in Red Hook WaterStories...
Conover Street
Conover Street was most likely named after John Conover who in 1757 owned a large property bordering on a mill pond, which was roughly defined by today's Court, Summit and Hamilton Streets. An article in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle , February 26, 1910...
The First Reformed Dutch Church
An account of the establishment of a mission chapel in Red Hook on Nov 8, 1867 by the general synod of The First Reformed Dutch Church in Brooklyn Heights.
Dutch tobacco plantations
The best tobacco shipped from the American colonies to Europe was grown on the Dutch tobacco plantations around the Wallabout, what is today known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Yard is also known to have been the site of the last public sale of...
The Remsen Mansion
Joris Remsen, the second son of Rem Jansen, was the ancestor of the Remsen family in the US. He built a mansion near the brow of the Heights, which was used for hospital purposes by the British during their occupation of the town in the Revolution....