By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Paul Frangipane is a photojournalist based in Brooklyn. He describes his approach as "through an intimate documentary lens, striving to capture the beauty in natural moments and providing creative perspectives on common events." Paul...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Select passages from The Citizen guide to Brooklyn and Long Island , 1893 [Page 103] A comparison between the commerce of New York and Brooklyn will serve to show the relative importance of the two cities as regards shipping and allied industries....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, the cereal market started to emerge. Invented in western New York, before long it became popular. With the creation of brands like Kellogg, Quaker Oats, cereal would secure its position as a national...
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The Red Hook Grain Terminal, is a large cement structure, erected by New York State in 1922. It's purpose was to store grain arriving from the Erie Canal. Located at the foot of Columbia Street, at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal, the 54-bin...
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The construction of the Atlantic Dock in Red Hook, Brooklyn was substantially completed by the beginning of 1848. The N.Y. Courier and Enquirer, reported that they have over three thousand feet of docking space and "have constructed one of the...
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Lithograph of Bartlet & Greene's warehouses and grain elevators by Endicott & Co ca. 1880. The area depicted is around the foot of Furman Street, slightly outside Red Hook's current boundaries. In the late 1800s Brooklyn was described...
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"Steamers Loading Exports in the Atlantic Basin" One of a large series of picture postcards published by the Brooklyn Eagle in the early 1900s. In addition to steamers, numerous barges - both square and Dutch style of rounded ones - also fill...
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Floating grain elevators were used to move grain up, out of the holds of ships and barges and then top load the grain into storage bins on land or on other vessels. According to Henry R. Stiles in A History of the City of Brooklyn , Daniel Richards...
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Aerial view of the Port of New York's Grain terminal. Photo in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York Link to the image: x.2010.11.11743
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Atlantic Basin around the end of the Civil War. The sidewheel steamer is the TEAZER, formerly the Confederate blockade runner BAT. The propeller steamer FAH KEE is beyond her. The warehouses, with grain elevators, are lining Commercial Wharf. ...
