By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Grain was king in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the latter half of the 1800s, . Boats loaded with grain would float down the Erie Canal, then down the Hudson River to the grain storehouses of Atlantic Basin, and later, in an even bigger way, Erie...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Frank Zotti, advertised in The New York Herald, October 1905 , that his U.S. Steamer BROOKLYN would debark from the Atlantic Basin to Fayal (Azores), Naples, and Genoa. Franjo (Frank) Zotti (1872–1947) immigrated to New York...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the 1850s, John Boyd was an agent, most likely for the shipping business. His office was on Van Brunt opposite the Atlantic Dock. If this is the case then his would have been one of the many jobs created in brooklyn with the opening of the...
