By The Red Hook WaterStories team
TODD SHIPYARDS FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. PROSPERITY of companies having contracts to build or repair ships is sharply brought out in the annual report of the Todd Shipyards Corporation, issued a few days ago. The report is the first issued covering a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A story of a friendship between "Joe" Tynan and "Bill" Todd. They started out driving rivets together at the at the same shipyards and both became presidents of large corporations. In 1921 Joseph H Tynan was the vice-president and Pacific Coast...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Residents of Red Hook are upset after a 1927 report by the Subcommittee on the Causes of Crime of the New York State Crime Commission pointed to the Brooklyn neighborhood as a hotbed of juvenile delinquency. A 2011 Brooklyn Public...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Todd Shipyards started life in Brooklyn, in 1869, as Handren and Robins. After Handren's death in 1892, it became the J. N. Robins Co. and then, after merging with the Erie Basin Dry Dock Company, which had been established by Delamater Iron Works,...
