By The Red Hook WaterStories team
During Spring semester 2024, PortSide is working with a Pratt Institute graduate student class on "participatory plannning" taught by Beth Bingham. We recommended Wally Bazemore as a resource for the class, and he came to speak during a session...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1846 when Hamilton Avenue Ferry service to Manhattan started it was the only mass transit option to and from Red Hook, Brooklyn. This was no longer the case in 1914, street cars and elevated subway lines crossed the Brooklyn Bridge,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Red Hook Houses, like many other Red Hook buildings, were built on land that was either originally underwater, or was a tidal marsh. New York City began clearing the land in the 1930s. Some of the land,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Red Hook Houses East and West, like many other Red Hook buildings, were built on land that was either originally underwater, or was a tidal marsh. The floods of Hurricane Sandy were a harsh reminder of this...
Interviewed in 2013 at age 19, Rasheed Johnson, a resident of NYCHA’s Red Hook houses, talks about how the neighborhood has changed in the past 8 years since he got here. Development has eliminated all his “hang out spots” except for Valentino...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The NYCHA public housing in Red Hook is the largest NYCHA development in Brooklyn, and the second largest in New York City. It is where the overwhelming majority of Red Hook residents live. Land for the houses was condemned May, 1938, the same month...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook's newest farm site, the 1.1 acre education farm at Red Hook Houses West was built in 2013 through a collaboration with Added Value (a nonprofit which closed in late 2018 and whose farms are now run by the Red Hook Initiative ), the Mayor's...
