PortSide has been corresponding with Don Horton since 2013. He visited us in 2015 from North Carolina to give us an oral history. The last time Don had visited Red Hook was in 1950. He wrote the memory of Red Hook Flats below in 2015. For related...
The MARY A. WHALEN
A PDF guide to MARY A. WHALEN in English, French , German , Spanish , Italian The oil tanker MARY A. WHALEN was launched May 21, 1938 . The ship is PortSide NewYork 's ambassador...
Title Fight: Louis Heineman vs. William Beard
No man ever, perhaps, got so much the best of old Beard as did Louis Heineman, the housemover of the Twelfth ward” (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 19, 1891) When Louis Heineman died in 1904, he was reportedly 104 years old, and likely the oldest...
German Kitchen Center
Modern Kitchen Design, from leading German brands, from a company with seven showrooms nationwide, and clients worldwide. 465 Van Brunt street, opposite Fairway Tel:(888) 209-5240 Monday - Sunday 10AM - 6PM
Street address: 465 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn NY 11231
Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company, founded 1873
In the Spring and Summer of 2019 most of the historic Lidgerwood building was torn down to make way a UPS e-commerce warehouse. Community action was not able to save the complete facade but as of a July 9, 2019 meeting, UPS has proposed...
Church of the Visitation, Richards Street & Visitation Place, 1931
Two views of the (R.C.) Church of the Visitation. T he parish of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in 1854 under the leadership of Bishop John Loughlin. According to the parish's website their first church, built in...
Street address: Richards Street & Visitation Place, Brooklyn, NY
1903 List of Brooklyn Piers
1-2 Empire Stores; Water and Dock, Fulton 3 Empire Stores, ft. of Main, Catherine 4 Martin Stores @No. 34 Furman, Fulton 5-6 Martin Stores @ No. 66 Furman, Fulton 7-8 Robert Stores,...
Eymund Diegel map: Gowanus Watershed With 1766 Marshes and 2013 Sandy Flood Line
Sandy essentially flooded anyone who built on the former tidal marshes. _ Map Explanation by mapmaker Eymund Diegel: Red lines are the upland Sandy flood lines (minus part the Fort Defiance Island area which is missing dry non flood area during...
Merchant Stores: Furious Steam, 1891
Merchant Stores had a large hydraulic press that it used to compress cotton bales. In 1891, people complained that when "exhaust steam was blown off it made a noise that sounded like a cross between the bellow of a bull and the scream of a tiger...
Much Cotton at Red Hook
Cotton was king in Red Hook from the 1870s to 1910. In 1901 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle more than once used the headline "Much Cotton in Red Hook" to describe how "the cotton docks and warehouses at Red Hook and the German-American stores at the foot...