By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1872 the Great Western Line was sailing out of Red hook Brooklyn's Atlantic Docks taking passengers and cargo to a port near London and other ports along the Bristol Channel. The cost of a cabin was $70 Today, one can take the Queen Mary 2...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ichaboe, a small island off the coast of Nambia, once towered high with mounds of seabird guano. An excellent fertilizer, beginning in 1843, English ships began exporting the guano to eager farmers in Europe and America. By 1844, 450 ships were...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This 1859 map shows the established Atlantic Basin in Red Hook, and a neighboring "Proposed Basin" that was not built as shown. The large Erie Basin, however, was built closer to the Gowanus in the mid-1860s. The towns of Bushwick and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
1850 Map of the City of Brooklyn by J. F Harrison, published by M. Dribbs. Atlantic Dock has been built by this time but Erie Basin had not and much of present day Red Hook is still under water. The companies listed at Atlantic Dock are: United...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Construction of The Atlantic Dock - a massive, man-made harbor for deep water ships, began on June 3, 1841. The erection of stout stone warehouses and towering grain elevators that could handle products coming down the Erie Canal began in 1844 and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The storehouses of Atlantic Dock were originally built for storing goods from ships, but as trade routes changed many were converted into factory spaces. In 1913 the William J. Tulin Company had a large candy making operation, at 1 and 3 Atlantic...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Morning Courier and New York Enquirer March 30, 1852 Picked up by a boat in the Atlantic Dock Basin, a pig in a drowning state. Owner can have the same by identifying property and paying expenses
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The construction of the Atlantic Dock in Red Hook, Brooklyn was substantially completed by the beginning of 1848. The N.Y. Courier and Enquirer, reported that they have over three thousand feet of docking space and "have constructed one of the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Improvement of Gowanus Bay, New York Harbor, N.Y: a 1892 map showing Red Hook, Gowanus Creek and Bay Ridge Channels as well as Atlantic Basin, Erie Basin, and a proposed basin.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
When the Steamer Uranium, from Rotterdam, via Halifax docked at Atlantic Basin's Pier 38 in Red Hook, all the talk was about love. Love was what people were talking about when the Steamer Uranium docked at Pier 38, Atlantic Basin, Red Hook, in...
