By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In Levi Hutchins' book "Autobiography of Levi Hutchins" published in 1865, he wrote about his experiences in the Battle of Brooklyn. Seleted text from his memoir is below: In the spring of 1776, after the evacuation of Boston, General Washington,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 2017, the inauguration of the NYC Ferry service was a big deal in the mind of Oscar Pagan , enough so that he drove from Staten Island back to Red Hook where he grew up to experience this big change for the neighborhood. He came to PortSide...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
On the occasion of the MARY A WHALEN's birthday James Teehan responded to a PortSide NewYork's May 21, 2018 Facebook post with fond memories: " Happy birthday. I have fond memories of the Mary A. Whalen on the Hudson River back in the 60s and 70s....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Charley Lawson, remembers being a boy in Red Hook in the 1920s. A student at PS 27, his waterstories include a lot of swimming, including "down the farm, " which was what Beard's Erie basin was locally called. Charley Lawson's...
