By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This image of the Grace Lines warehouse in Atlantic Basin comes from a scrap book (1924-1925 page 28) in the collection of the Seaman's Church Institute. In the background of the photo to the left of the Grace Lines warehouse Governors Island with...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Huge waves crashing down on the deck as hail, steamers burning through their coal just to stay in place against the wind, ships being thrashed by the storm and everything, and everyone, frozen and encrusted in ice. These are the stories that the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Tossed and damaged by strong winds the ANDROMEDA, a four-masted British bark out of Belfast, Ireland arrived at the Erie Basin with tattered sails. The passage was hard on the crew: “Frank Dunn a seaman apprentice, fell from the rigging and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in the early 1900s was headquartered at 116 Imlay Street, near the Atlantic Basin. The company, generally known as A&P, started in Manhattan in 1859 as a retailer of tea brought in by...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
John M. Wright, a sailor, was charged with the killing of Bernard Ferron, a river speculator on March 16, 1878. Ferron, a Red Hook resident, made his living buying and selling scrap iron from ships. When his body was found weighed down with iron,...
