By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Henry Onderdonk in his 1849 book: Revolutionary incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties: with an account of the Battle of Long Island and the British prisons and prison-ships at New York, includes a map of the Battle of Long Island, including the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A map of New York Bay and Harbor and the environs to which has been added notations indicating the positions of troops and fleets at the Battle of Long Island, 1776. The 1845 base map is a trigonometrical survey made under the direction...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A plan of New York Island, part of Long Island, Staten Island & east New Jersey, with a particular description of the engagement on the woody heights of Long Island, between Flatbush and Brooklyn on the 27th of August 1776. This map was made by...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Three maps of the Battle of Brooklyn (aka the Battle of Long Island) in the collection of the New York Public Library. "Map of Brooklyn at the time of the Revolutionary War" by Jeremiah Johnson (1768-1852) published in 1858. "Map of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This map, published ca. 1834, shows location of of the American Army and fortifications in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens at the start of the Battle of Long Island (aka Battle of Brooklyn) August 27th 1776. In the waters off of Red Hook,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Maps dated 1962 of the Railway in Atlantic Basin. Trains moved cargo from ships to warehouses in and near Atlantic Basin. Similar port factilies map are down below.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Welikia is a native ecology mapping project maintained by the Urban Conservation team at the New York Botanical Garden . The map shows what the ecology of New York City, including Red Hook, looked like pefore people started...
The issue of affordable housing is always an issue in the greater Red Hook, Brooklyn area, as it is elsewhere, but it is particularly relevant at the time of this writing (Spring 2025) when the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is pushing...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This 1859 map shows the established Atlantic Basin in Red Hook, and a neighboring "Proposed Basin" that was not built as shown. The large Erie Basin, however, was built closer to the Gowanus in the mid-1860s. The towns of Bushwick and Williamsburg...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This 1850 map of the City of Brooklyn produced by J. F Harrison and published by M. Dripps shows the Red Hook waterfront in transition. The map shows a street grid where Coffey Park is today, but the park did not yet exist at the point...
