By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and the Lenape Center developed a relationship after the BPL contacted them about creating a land acknowledgement. Out of this relationship, at the request of the Lenape Center came the book ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
PortSide NewYork acknowledges that we are on land and waterways that is Lenape territory, Lenapehoking. This is an intro to the people story of Red Hook, to the changing ethnic groups that lived and/or worked here roughly in the order of their...
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
Halleck was officially plotted and named by the City of Brooklyn in 1835. Halleck Street was possibly named after Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790 - 1867), an American poet very popular in his day. Beginning in 1832, he became...
