By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The New York and Puerto Rico steamship company's ships traveled between San Juan, Puerto Rico and Pier 35, Atlantic Basin in Red Hook. [ The Brooklyn Daily Eagle , March 27, 1917] The SS COAMO, SS BRAZOS, and SS CAROLINA were all ships that took...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The 1970s were a tough economic time for the Brooklyn waterfront. Containerization of ship cargo had reduced the number of jobs, and many of those jobs had moved to facilities in New Jersey. The City and the Port Authority had a plan to build a new...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Porto Rico Line regularly sailed from the Atlantic Basin's Pier 35 to Puerto Rico. The line transported cargo and tourists to and from the islands. Many Puerto Ricans migrated to New York on the line and established a community in Red Hook. In...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The SS Carolina, was the means of migration for many Puerto Ricans, from 1906 to 1918. 1906 was the year the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company purchased the vessel and made Pier 35 in Red Hook's Atlantic Basin her homeport. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the early 1900s, many Puerto Ricans migrated to Brooklyn on the S.S Carolina. Most paid for their passage, but some hid on board - and of that number some made the newspapers. This was the case for 4 sixteen year old boys (three of African...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A list of the piers in Brooklyn, their location, length and occupants publishished in the Port of New York Annual Report of 1920. In the Red Hook area were: Ferry Slips , located at Hamilton Avenue, run by the Union Ferry Company, owned by New York...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Horns and whistles have long been a key means of communication between vessels. Important messages such as "I am passing on the starboard" can be sent with a single whistle blow and avoid collisions. A code of whistle blows were also used by one Red...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The New York Dock Company Railway moved cargo to and from ships, local warehouses and factories. The railway was officially incorporated on October 1, 1912, as a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Dock Company. It was formed...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook's Atlantic Basin was the main port of entry for early Puerto Rican migrants. They traveled on the ships of the NEW YORK & PORTO RICO STEAMSHIP COMPANY" (aka, PORTO RICO LINE). Jose Mendez is quoted in Place Matters , a joint...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Captain Nels Helgesen during his long career which began in 1918, commanded every ship of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Line. The home port of the steamship line was in Red Hook's Atlantic Basin. Starting in the late 1910s, their ships...
