By The Red Hook WaterStories team
PortSide has been corresponding with Don Horton since 2013. He visited us in 2015 from North Carolina to give us an oral history. The last time Don had visited Red Hook was in 1950. He wrote the memory of Red Hook Flats below in 2015. For related...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Charles Yale Harrison best known for his anti-war novel Generals Die in Bed set his second novel A Child is Born (1931) among the poor of Red Hook. He focused on society's ills in hopes of effecting change. A reviewer in the Brooklyn Eagle...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
H.P. Lovecraft's horror story about Red Hook. (Links to the full story can be found under "sources" below)
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Literary Reference 1908 detective novel with a setting in Erie Basin “Alice gazed about and presently recognized her surroundings. "Why, this is the Erie Basin!" she murmured. "How in the world did I ever come here?" Now, the Erie Basin has...
