By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Bill Doherty, August 3, 2021 , discusses a painting of Todd's Shipyard in Red Hook's Erie Basin in the early 1960s based on his memories of being there at the time. "Jiffy Lube, New York Harbor. Early 1960's. What a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The German American Mutual Warehousing and Security Company, in 1875, applied for permission from the NY Land office to build out the land and create two new piers near their warehouse bordered by Partition (now Coffey), Conover and Van Dyke...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Select passages from The Citizen guide to Brooklyn and Long Island , 1893 [Page 103] A comparison between the commerce of New York and Brooklyn will serve to show the relative importance of the two cities as regards shipping and allied industries....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Matt Kraushar, dubbed “Medical Matt,” set up a Red Hook Sandy recovery medical team. He was a medical student living on Van Brunt Street when Sandy hit. He learned from Katrina that medical issues that were managed under normal conditions...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the 1930s, most of the passenger and cargo trade with Japan coming into the port of New York was handled by Brooklyn piers; and one of the biggest players was the Osaka Chosen Kaisha Line that departed from Pier 3 in the Erie Basin. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Docked at the German-American pier, at the foot of Ferris Street, in May of 1897 was the clipper ship Belfast - known as a ghost craft in the British Merchant Marine. The World newspaper reported that: "Seamen Burke and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Excursion barges “bedecked with flags, bunting and streamers” are boarded by crowds, often numbering in the thousands, on that portion of the outside north pier at Atlantic Basin which is closest to Hamilton Ferry “The sight is a most pleasing...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1921 Todd Shipyards published a book about itself, touting its many facilities and care of its employees. The corporation was founded in 1916 when William H. Todd, along with some associates took over and merged Robins Dry Dock and the and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Don Horton worked with his family on barges from the age of 10 to 18. This meant that during WWII, his family was part of the merchant marines, doing dangerous work since German U-boats were attacking American commercial vessels trading along our...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In mid-September 1941 a field force of the United States army landed in Iceland. The US had not officially entered WWII (that happened when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941) but were backing up the British who had taken control of the...
