By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ira S. Bushey started his work life driving mules on the Erie Canal in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. By 1895 Bushey began repairing boats, settling up shop in Brooklyn in 1905. His shipyard was located at the foot of Court Street, on...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
It is uncertain now who Ferris Street is named for. It is possibly for Gilbert H. Ferris who owned a ship yard at the corner of Van Brunt and Beard Streets - not far from Ferris Street - in the 1860s. Whether he, or his family, was active in the...
