By The Red Hook WaterStories team
[Links to the video below] Ørkenen Sur. A Norwegian documentary made in 2015 about the shanty town that existed int Red Hook from the early 1920s to the mid 1930s. Known by names including Ørkenen Sur (the bitter desert), and Tin City. It was home...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sketches of the shanties near Erie Basin, by artist Robert Cummings Wiseman, 1930s. Images are in the collection of the Museum of City of New York and can be seen by clicking on the links below: 46.136.7 46.136.8 46.136.9 46.136.10 46.136.11...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Three Brooklyn sailors of Norwegian descent planned to sail around the world in a modified wooden lifeboat in 1921. Captain Mimer Tonning, Otthar Petterson, and Helge Westerling, members of the Norwegian Masters and Mates Association, planned the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
While Bay Ridge, Brooklyn was the center of the Scandinavian population in the 1930's through the 1960's, Norwegians moved out from their original settlement in New Amsterdam in the 1630's to Brooklyn, where they settled and prospered. Red Hook was...
