Interviewed in 2013 at age 19, Rasheed Johnson, a resident of NYCHA’s Red Hook houses, talks about how the neighborhood has changed in the past 8 years since he got here. Development has eliminated all his “hang out spots” except for Valentino...

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...

According to the The New York Press in 1899, the Atlantic Docks made the surrounding area of Columbia Heights less desirable for the well-to-do.  They left for more "artistic" places, leaving in their wake lower rents for "a cheaper class of...