By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The German American Mutual Warehousing and Security Company, in 1875, applied for permission from the NY Land office to build out the land and create two new piers near their warehouse bordered by Partition (now Coffey), Conover and Van Dyke...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ships have unintended passengers As ships travel across the oceans between the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and elsewhere they take with them unintended passengers. These stowaways include seeds mixed in with ballast. In order to be properly...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A fair portion of today’s Red Hook was once water. An 1887 article in the Brook Eagle marvels that Henry and neighboring streets have been extended nearly half a mile in ten years. Marshes with knee-high water, or deeper, were being...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Historian Henry Stiles writes in his 1884 history of Brooklyn: "The southern portion of the Hook was a high hill covered with locust, poplar, cedar, and sassafras trees. This hill was cut down in 1835 by Messers. Dikeman, Waring and Underhill for...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
According to the Brooklyn Eagle, King Street is named after a German named King who in 1842 lived in a stone house. He "made his fortune as a ragpicker and scavenger, at the numerous dumping heaps and eventual became a property owner." The...
