Richard Gambino, a retired professor, grew up in Red Hook in the 1950s.  Interviewed by oral historian Shannon Geis in 2013, he recalls it as a close-knit Italian immigrant commumity.  He talks of the customs and traditons of the waterfront...

Cast in 1939 by Marugg, the architect of the pool building was Aymar Embury II. This was a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).