Born in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, Al Capone was a crime boss during the Prohibition Era.

John M. Wright, a sailor, was charged with the killing of Bernard Ferron, a river speculator on March 16, 1878. Ferron, a Red Hook resident, made his living buying and selling scrap iron from ships. When his body was found weighed down with iron,...

Four Red Hook residents died from poisoned whisky and three were arrested for selling bad liquor. Michael Keenan, 41, a truckman living at 135 Dykeman Street, became blind and is at the Long Island College Hospital. Last night the police arrested...

From the 1830s to 1965 Castle Williams on Governors Island served as a military prison. Over the years prisoners have attempted to escape by swimming across the Buttermilk Channel to Red Hook. The New York Times Tuesday, AUGUST 29, 1901 ESCAPED BY...