In The City's Basins. Severe Weather for the Canalers on the Grain Boats. Brigs, Barks and Schooners, Between Five and Six Hundred in All, Fast in the Grip of an Ice Giant--Walking Easy Across Smith's Pond at the Foot of Court and Clinton Streets....

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...