Resilient Social Housing in Red Hook, NYC is a master dissertation project developed by Rostislav Krones "for International Master of Architecture at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture in Ghent with professor Kris Scheerlinck as an academic...

Reclaiming the Red Hook Waterfront: An Analysis of the Urban Maritime Architectural Tradition in South  Brooklyn   is a 2020 thesis by Emily Conklin presented to the Faculty of the Department of Art History at New York...

During Spring semester 2024, PortSide is working with a Pratt Institute graduate student class on "participatory plannning" taught by Beth Bingham. We recommended Wally Bazemore as a resource for the class, and he came to speak during a session...

Shannon Geis spent months researching the history of Red Hook, reading old newspapers, and, "most importantly, speaking with the people of Red Hook about how they view the community and where they see themselves in it." Her interviews took...

PortSide was engaged to work with the 2020 Spring semester of Columbia University's graduate Historic Preservation studio which used Red Hook as a study area.    At the bottom of this page, is an audio tour PortSide gave along this...

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...

Richard Gambino, a retired professor, grew up in Red Hook in the 1950s.  Interviewed by oral historian Shannon Geis in 2013, he recalls it as a close-knit Italian immigrant commumity.  He talks of the customs and traditons of the...

"In a neighborhood where the Puerto Rican presence is all but completely forgotten, this paper tells the story of the last efforts of the pioneros of the community in trying to preserve their way of life against the rapid urban development that...