By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Greater New York Marine Transportation is a small tug and barge company that is a tenant of the Erie Basin Bargeport. Greater New York Marine has one oil barge and two tugs (EASTERN DAWN, THE DORY) which deliver fuel products with the barges and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The LOUJAINE is docked in the GBX Company's section of Erie Basin. Previously named the ABU LOUJAINE, and before that the BAHMA, she was built in 1966, in Nagoya, Japan for the Saudi Arabian company Arabian Bulk Trade. In the 1980s the ship...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This article from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, March 12, 1911, recounts the winter-time lives of Erie Canal barge families who winter in Erie Basin. Colonies of Cozy Canal Boats Cluster for Winter City of Inland Navigators Prepares for Annual...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This green buoy is one of a series that marks the north/west side of Buttermilk Channel. The green color and odd number (5) indicates to mariners that they should keep it on their port (left) side as they are heading north in the channel. This...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This buoy is on the south side of the main channel connecting the East River and upper New York Harbor. [See U.S. Coast Pilot 2, 45th ed., 2016, pars. 270-286 ] It is a red buoy, telling mariners to keep it on their starboard (right) side as they...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This buoy is at the southwest end of the Buttermilk Channel. It is green and conical, so it tells mariners to keep it on their port (left) side as they are heading north, into the channel. See In The Water for more information on navigating the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This buoy notes the north end of the Bay Ridge Channel. To the south of the buoy are the Gowanus and Bay Ridge Flats, which are too shallow for commercial ships to traverse. This is a green buoy, which indicates to mariners to stay to keep it on...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor was created in 1953 in response to the pervasive corruption on the waterfront in the Port of New York-New Jersey. A joint state agency it was formed after public hearings revealed corruption,...
Street address: 100 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201
Tel.: (718 )852-2434
Fax: (718) 596-5306
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The mission of the U.S. Customs and Boarder Protection is to "safeguard America’s borders thereby protecting the public from dangerous people and materials." Dangerous materials range from illegal drugs to infected fruit. Customs inspectors...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Atlantic Basin Iron Works office and large work shops were located at Imlay, Summit, Van Brunt, and Bowne Streets. They did all sorts of repairs a ship might need including steamship and diesel motors. The main entry for the Atlantic Basin Iron...
