Temperatures dropped so low in the winter of 1893 that business was frozen to a standstill. Six hundred canal boats, schooners, brigs and barks were locked by ice in Red Hook's Atlantic and Erie Basins. This was less of an inconvenience for the...

This article from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, March 12, 1911, recounts the winter-time lives of Erie Canal barge families who winter in Erie Basin. Colonies of Cozy Canal Boats Cluster for Winter City of Inland Navigators Prepares for Annual...

The Brooklyn Basin was part of Beard estate, south of his Erie Basin on the other side of Columbia Street, also known as the "Long Dock." Unlike Erie Basin, the Beard Estate never developed Brooklyn Basin and for that reason and others there was...

A story about naked boys in the late 1800s who fish for crabs among the millions of logs stored in and around the Erie and Brooklyn Basins. The Morning Ca ll , September 21, 1892 The Small Boy Goes "Crabbing . Now is the season when the merry...