The Atlantic Dock etched by Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933) in 1888. A three-masted schooner tied up to a pier dominates the left side of the image

The AMERICAN TURTLE was the first submarine used in war. It was in 1776, not far from Red Hook.  Invented by David Bushnell, the one-man hand-propelled craft was designed to attach an underwater time bomb to an enemy vessel.  On a September night...

Newly married and recently widowed in 1890 , Jennie Chandler Young began working as a photojournalist to support herself and her two-month old son. Using the moniker "Brooklyn Girl," she worked until 1915 for the  New York Herald  as a...

Many artists have captured the likeness of PortSide NewYork’ s tanker the MARY WHALEN in a variety of styles from plein air paintings, illustrations and comic art.   The artists in this collection are:  Stephen Gardne r ...

Hook Arts Media Arts with a focus on  social transformation and community Copying from their website: Mission Premised on the belief that the arts are an effective vehicle for social transformation, Hook Arts Media® unites artists and...

Street address: 480 Van Brunt Street

Raaka Chocolate offers a very Red Hook combo on site of manufacturing, tours of the factory, classes and retail. They make artisanal chocolate bars which you can buy along with chocolate nibs and swag. In the 1910's their building was part of the...

Street address: 64 Seabring Street Brooklyn, NY 11231

Lithograph of Bartlet & Greene's warehouses and grain elevators by Endicott & Co ca. 1880.  The area depicted is around the foot of Furman Street, slightly outside Red Hook's current boundaries. In the late 1800s Brooklyn was described...

From the artist: In the spring of 2015 artist Jim Ebersole was invited by Portside NewYork to paint and draw the Mary A. Whalen and her surroundings during the last weeks of her time inside the Red Hook Container Terminal. He spent several days...

Paul Morris artist: Sound of Pier #44 From the artist: I'm a NYC based photographic artist who is reconstructing reality. As I see these images, my mind immediately starts to restructure and rearrange them. Photography is my way of capturing these...

From the artist Paul Morris: I'm a NYC based photographic artist who is reconstructing reality. As I see these images, my mind immediately starts to restructure and rearrange them. Photography is my way of capturing these images to create my art....