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Seaman's Handbook for Shore Leave, 1920

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

Seaman's handbook for Shore Leave , by United States Merchant Marine’s Social Service Bureau. Custom House, published in 1920 listed sailor’s homes – places were sailors could get a bed and sometimes a meal for a night - from...

Tags: Hamilton Avenue, Marine Firemen Oilers & Watertenders, Norwegian Seaman’s Mission, Norwegian Seamen's Church, Norwegians, Pioneer Street, Seamen's Goodwill Center, shore leave

Subjects: Maritime, Charitable Organizations, Peoples--Norwegians

WPA Sewer Project on Pioneer Street, 1935

By The New York Public Library Digital Collections & Works Progress Administration Five Boroughs Project

Pioneer Street, west from and across Van Brunt Street, showing a W. P. A. sewer project. Pioneer Street ends at Van Brunt Street, the section of the thoroughfare proceeding from there on is William Street.

Street address: Pioneer Street & Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY

Tags: Pioneer Street, sewer, WPA

Subjects: Water Management

Norwegian Seaman’s Mission

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

The Norwegian Seaman’s Mission, designed as a safe and wholesome place for sailors between jobs stood at 111-113 Pioneer Street in 1919. Missions provided food, beds and reading rooms.

Tags: 113 Pioneer Street, Norwegian Seaman’s Mission, Pioneer Street

Subjects: Peoples--Norwegians, Religion

Ramberg Iron Works buys property from failed Atlantic Dock Company, 1918

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...

Tags: Atlantic Basin, Atlantic Dock Company, Atlantic Docks, Imlay Street, Pioneer Street, Ramberg Iron Works, ship building, ship repair

Subjects: Maritime--Shipyards, Peoples--Norwegians

Pioneer Street

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

Pioneer Street was originally Williams Street. It was renamed Pioneer Street on April 20, 1903 quite certainly after the Pioneer Iron Works, founded in 1866, which was located on the street. The factory is now home to Pioneer Works, "a center for...

Tags: Pioneer Street

Seaman's Handbook for Shore Leave, 1920

WPA Sewer Project on Pioneer Street, 1935

Norwegian Seaman’s Mission

Ramberg Iron Works buys property from failed Atlantic Dock Company, 1918

Pioneer Street

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