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
Red Hook’s east side is bounded by the Gowanus Bay which funnels into the Gowanus Canal at the Hamilton Avenue Bridge. PortSide’s flagship the tanker MARY A. WHALEN frequently delivered home heating oil to the two Bayside fuel terminals on...
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
In 1953, Thomas Thompson, cook aboard Dalzell Towing's tugboat Datzellera, wrote a guest column for the Brooklyn Eagle's feature Harbor Lights. “I am allocated $10.05 per day to feed six men, three meals apiece, or a total of 18 meals...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The storehouses of Atlantic Dock were originally built for storing goods from ships, but as trade routes changed many were converted into factory spaces. In 1913 the William J. Tulin Company had a large candy making operation, at 1 and 3 Atlantic...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Seaman's Branch of the YMCA, originally established as the Scandinavian Seamen's Mission, hosted 263 unsettled sailors, deckhands, and other maritime men from sixteen nations for Christmas dinner near the piers of Erie Basin in 1938. According...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Brooklyn Life reporter Addison Steele, describes in 1897 the harvesting and pickling of mussles growing on the ramains of ship in Erie basin: A large part of the bull of the sunken Ailsa has been removed from the spot where she went...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1890, Mrs. A. M. Hamilton, a widow, was interviewed in Atlantic Basin, and celebrated by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as being equal to any man running a canal boat. Beginning in the mid-1820s, canal boats brought produce from the nation's...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
AR Hot Bagels A sandwich shop focused on bagels and rolls, with some wraps. Bottled juices, coffee, tea and some soups. In addition to a bagel lunch, one can also get burgers and fries, and breakfast foods such as pancakes. Mostly take out...
Street address: 350 Van Brunt Street
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Don't be put off by a long line, their large and speedy staff cranks out sandwiches fast! This long-time family business slings huge portions to make great Italian hero sandwiches and has its own Red Hook WaterStories. Defonte's Sandwich...
