By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook was feasting on mackerel, late October of 1901. A school of the fish reportedly chased by bluefish and porpoises had found their way into Atlantic Basin. Fishermen lined the piers, catching the mackerel with makeshift poles and any kind of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The posted fishing regulations on the pier state: The Department of Environmental Protection Agency states a LIMIT of 4 Blackfish (Tautoga Onitis) 16 inches or longer to be removed from the Basin per day per person. All Blackfish under 16 inches...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Vladi Banjac of Estate4 with a large stripped bass that he caught off the foot of Wolcott Street. Large in the background is the Queen Mary 2, which docks at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in the Atlantic Basin.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook Point in the mid-1800s was just beginning to be developed. In an irregular way, shanties dotted the shoreline. Some of the residents of these homes would sit under their awnings scanning the waters for loose timbers and other prizes...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Two atmposheric photos by George Bradford Brainerd. View of three men standing in front of Erie Basin boathouse in Red Hook, 1886. One of the early unofficial names of the area that became Erie Basin was the “Fishing Place,"...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1921, the Brooklyn Spar Company advertised in The Marine Journal that it sold wooden masts and posts for derricks and flag poles, which the company made at its waterfront facility at the foot of Columbia Street. In O.R. Pilat's 1929 article, John...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
" All day naked youngsters are perched on these logs, watching their bait, chasing each other over the slippery lumber or diving and paddling in the water." A story about naked boys in the late 1800s who fish for crabs among the millions of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the 1850s, David P. Wild was the proprietor of the Bay House. He advertised that the bar was well supplied with wines, brandies, ales and cigars of the very best brands. He also outfitted fishermen with sail and row boats, tackle and bait. The...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Remembrances of life on Coffey and other streets in Red Hook. "Hello all you Red Hookers!!! My good friend… still lives on Coffey St. I live at Dikeman St. Graduated Visitation school June of 1949. We done most of our dancing in Sam's Bar on Beard...
