By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Fireboats from the water and fire engines on land battled for over 8 hours to extinguisher four warehouses ablaze along Atlantic Basin’s Commercial Wharf, January 16, 1954. Twenty-one fighters and two policemen were injured. Fifteen of those...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, the cereal market started to emerge. Invented in western New York, before long it became popular. With the creation of brands like Kellogg, Quaker Oats, cereal would secure its position as a national...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The following article excerpt brings readers to New York City, 1894 where companies like R. C. Layton & Co., flourished in an increasingly industrialized and connected new world. Business (as demonstrated by the other examples in this article)...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Bonded warehouse are places were foreign imports can be stored or manipulated without the payment of duty or taxes. The government only gets a piece of the action (duty) if and when the goods are sold domestically. Under the watchful eyes...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the 1870s grain made up a bulk of the imports to Red Hook's piers but a wide variety of other goods from around the world were arriving and being stored at its ports. Major's Storage Guide (1873) published "Rates of Storage and Labor on...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Lithograph of Bartlet & Greene's warehouses and grain elevators by Endicott & Co ca. 1880. The area depicted is around the foot of Furman Street, slightly outside Red Hook's current boundaries. In the late 1800s Brooklyn was described...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"It is almost like Sunday." In 1873 a financial crisis caused the first modern "Great Depression" in America and Europe which lasted until 1879 and in some places much longer. With money in short supply very few goods were shipped to and from the...
