By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Van Brunt family was a well-established early Dutch family who settled in New Utrecht. This street may be named for Rutgert Van Brunt who was a member of the NYS Assembly from Kings County from 1783-1784. In 2017 the New York Times wrote an...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sometime before 1689, Stephanus Van Cortlandt (d. 1700) erected a water-powered mill on his property, roughly at the corner of present day Dikeman and Van Brunt Streets. "The mill-pond, which was formed by damming off the creeks and natural ponds in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The landscape of Red Hook has been dramatically changed by people at least twice in its history. Starting in a major way around 1830, marshland was filled in to make solid land, and the coast line was modified to better suit boats. Nearly...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Henry R Stiles in his 1867 history of Brooklyn references a 1755 census of slaves in Brooklyn: “ from which we learn that there were then in Brooklyn 133 slaves (53 of whom were females), owned by sixty-two persons, among whom John Bargay and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
PortSide NewYork acknowledges that we are are land and waterways that are the homeland of the Lenape, a place they call "Lenapehoking." The Lenape were displaced by European settlers and forced to move as a group multiple times to several US...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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
