At the farthest southwest point of Red Hook sits Valentino Park, a beautiful public space that looks out directly into the New York harbor, and is one of the best vantage points of the Statue of Liberty in Brooklyn. But before the Statue of Liberty,...

A version of Bernard Ratzer’s map made by him for the British Government in 1767. A copy of this map appears in Henry R. Stiles’, 1867 book A History of Brooklyn . According to www.geographicus.com, the map was drawn by Henry’s brother Edward...

Bernard Ratzer surveyed the New York City region (including Red Hook, Brooklyn) for the British in 1766-7. His map is the most accurate one known of that time. Initially published in 1770, it was brought to wider attention when Henry Reed Stiles...