By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Select passages from The Citizen guide to Brooklyn and Long Island , 1893 [Page 103] A comparison between the commerce of New York and Brooklyn will serve to show the relative importance of the two cities as regards shipping and allied industries....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Col. Daniel Richards was a visionary developer who set Red Hook on the path to becoming one of the world's major commercial ports. Inspired by the powerful economic effects resulting from the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, Richards moved from...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Standard Union in their Sixty-Fifth Anniversary edition, published in 1928, looked back at Col. Daniel Richards' dream of Atlantic Basin and called it a success. "Atlantic Basin a Dream Realized. The famous Atlantic Basin, $640000...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook Building Company was the brainchild of Col. Daniel Richards, a man who grew up in upstate New York. When the Erie Canal opened in 1825 and had a powerful economic effect, Richards was inspired. He saw great potential for Red Hook,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Richards Street was named after Col. Daniel Richards. Richards was a visionary developer who set Red Hook on the path to becoming one of the world's major commercial ports. He moved to Brooklyn from upstate New York after seeing the powerful...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Del a van Street was officially listed as Del e ven Street when the City of Brooklyn officially named it. The current spelling might be a correction if, as seems likely, it was named for Delavan Richards, son of Col. Daniel Richards, founder...
