By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Bridge is a suspended by four main steel wire cables. It became the first major bridge of its kind when it opened for service in May 1883 and it's unique design remains essentially the same today. The concept of suspending a bridge with...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Atlantic Basin Iron Works office and large work shops were located at Imlay, Summit, Van Brunt, and Bowne Streets. They did all sorts of repairs a ship might need including steamship and diesel motors. The main entry for the Atlantic Basin Iron...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
" We have mostly men here - very few women. No unattached women permitted at the bar. That’s a simple way of preventing trouble." One of the best known watering holes in Red Hook was the Shaft Alley saloon. Fortune magazine, in a 1937 essay...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Imlay Street was originally Hudson Street but was renamed in 1861 for William H. Imlay, a large property holder in Red Hook, who both sold land to the Atlantic Dock Company and was a major shareholder.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 2014, re-purposing construction began on the former New York Dock Company building at 160 Imlay Street. The building was built in 1910 as one of the first cast-in-place concrete structures designed as a warehouse for cargo shipped in and out of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The New York Dock Buildings at 160 and 162 Imlay Street were built to be key structures in the New York Dock Company's early twentieth-century Atlantic Terminal operations. The buildings were abandoned for some time, but today are being re-purposed....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ramberg Iron Works paid $650,000 to the receivers of the Atlantic Dock Company for eight and three quarter acres fronting the Buttermilk Channel at the foot of Coffey, Dykman, Sullivan and Wolcott Streets in 1918. The site was within the free...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The New York City Draft Riots took place between July 13 and July 16 of 1863. The violent insurrection was a reaction to conscription into military service during the Civil War. African Americans became the target of the rioters' anger and an...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in the early 1900s was headquartered at 116 Imlay Street, near the Atlantic Basin. The company, generally known as A&P, started in Manhattan in 1859 as a retailer of tea brought in by...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
At the end of the 1800s, brandy was tracked and taxed by the US federal government. Before being taxed, tariffed goods such as brandy were stored in bonded warehouses overseen by custom officials. Duties would be charged when the goods were sold...
