By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The German American Mutual Warehousing and Security Company, in 1875, applied for permission from the NY Land office to build out the land and create two new piers near their warehouse bordered by Partition (now Coffey), Conover and Van Dyke...
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
Cotton was king in Red Hook from the 1870s to 1910. In 1901 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle more than once used the headline "Much Cotton in Red Hook" to describe how "the cotton docks and warehouses at Red Hook and the German-American stores at the foot...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Around 1895, the several and various Brooklyn dock and warehouse companies, including the Atlantic Dock Company, merged into a trust called the Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company. Old monied names such as Pierrepont - there is a street named after...
