"Red Hook Residents Critical of City on Relocation" was the headline of a April 20, 1975 New York Time article. To clear the way for an expanded container port, 220 families - and the buildings they lived in - were slated to be cleared away. ...

In June of 1979, scores of local residents attended a meeting of Brooklyn Community Board 6 to voice their displeasure  with a plan for the construction of a 70-acre containerport to be built for the Port Authority centering around the Atlantic...