By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hōp (pronounced hope) is slated to open some time in 2025. Bun Cheam and his wife Cait Callahan are opening a a Cambodian restaurant at 358 Van Brunt Street. They are backed by Billy Durney who is the owner of two...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Reclaiming the Red Hook Waterfront: An Analysis of the Urban Maritime Architectural Tradition in South Brooklyn is a 2020 thesis by Emily Conklin presented to the Faculty of the Department of Art History at New York...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Spring Bank, " a community bank with a mission to promote financial inclusion in New York City" opened a branch in Red Hook Brooklyn at the end of 2024. This ended a several year period where there were no banks in Red Hook at all. According...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and the Lenape Center developed a relationship after the BPL contacted them about creating a land acknowledgement. Out of this relationship, at the request of the Lenape Center came the book ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Carolina Salguero, PortSide’s Executive Director, narrated a tour covering the history of Red Hook’s working waterfront (docks) and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal process during a free public sail we offered as part of our visiting vessel...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Mary A. Whalen was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 2012. The National Park Service 's National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. It is part of a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
HE SAW THE NORTH POLE - The Intelligencer - Wheeling W. Virgina - May 17 1888 The Intlligencer, a newpaper out of Wheeling, West Virgina, ran a colorful story in the Spring of 1888 (likely printed in many other papers accross the country too)...
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Updates since close of comment period 11/15/23 press release from office of Congressman Dan Goldman: In short: the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) invoked the agency’s role as formal non-federal sponsor of HATS. NYS DEC’s...
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A 2006 study examined parts of the Brooklyn Piers 7-12 site north of the Atlantic Basin that were flagged by the Landmarks Preservation Commission as warranting further study and assessment for their potential sensitivity to yield remains of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A plan was announced at a press event on May 14, 2024 in the Red Hook Container Terminal with the Mayor, Governor, President/CEO of the NYC Economic Develepment Corporation (NYC EDC) , Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, and Port Authority...
