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Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and how it has gone through Red Hook

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

Instead of building the Brooklyn Queens Expressway down Van Burnt Street, Robert Moses decided to build the highway through Hicks Street thus bisecting the Red Hook neighborhood while connecting the Brooklyn Bridge with the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel....

Tags: Brooklyn Queens Expressway, Hicks Street, highway, Italian immigrants, mass transit, migrants, Robert Moses

Subjects: Mass Transit

That Red Hook Subway Route, 1923

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

A reader wrote to the editor of the Standard Union asking about a potential Red Hook subway connection. The editor responded that the subway project was only a tentative proposal. Text of Q&A in the Brooklyn Standard Union, September 7, 1923 To...

Tags: mass transit

Subjects: Mass Transit

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and how it has gone through Red Hook

That Red Hook Subway Route, 1923

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