"A Red Hook nonprofit hopes to turn a ramp it set up for an injured seagull into a "floating habitat" project to give refuge to city birds." Click here for the article Brooklyn 'Duck Dock' Becomes Prime Real Estate For Birds In Need  in the...

Buoyant, monogamous, punctual, small! Meet the bufflehead, our winter duck friends in Atlantic Basin, Red Hook, and Brooklyn

No man ever, perhaps, got so much the best of old Beard as did Louis Heineman, the housemover of the Twelfth ward” (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 19, 1891) When Louis Heineman died in 1904, he was reportedly 104 years old, and likely the oldest...