By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook Ball Fields 155 Bay Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 718 722 3211 M-F 6am-8pm Sat 6am 4pm Sun closed The Red Hook ball fields are part of the 58 acre Red Hook Recreation Center. The fields host leagues and teams; currently 4 of the 9 fields are...
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Valentino Park and Pier Between Coffey and Van Dyke Streets on Ferris St Brooklyn, NY 11231 From the NYC Parks website: "Valentino Pier was once the site of an active shipping industry. In the 1600s, the Red Hook district was settled by the Dutch....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Coffey Park, like a lot of other city properties, such as other parks, school and housing sites, started off as less desired marshy land, prone to flooding. Over the years the place was used as a skating pond in the winter and as a dump for...
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TODD SHIPYARDS FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. PROSPERITY of companies having contracts to build or repair ships is sharply brought out in the annual report of the Todd Shipyards Corporation, issued a few days ago. The report is the first issued covering a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Erie Basin, at one time dubbed “The busiest place in the Port of New York” is a large man-made protected harbor near the southern point of Red Hook. Its U-shaped breakwater, well over one-half mile long, encloses a large area of water. The basin...
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NY Harbor police rescue a black cat hanging on for life on the rudder of a steamship. He was taken aboard the police boat to recuperate but was not warmly greeted by Fanny. Fanny was another cat who had made the boat her home when it was being...
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A Red Hook cat invaded the British steamship BADAGERY while the vessel was docked in Erie Basin and proceeded to terrorize the small members of the crew. Katy Cockroach, the cook’s speckled hen, stopped laying eggs and became “lean and...
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Tossed and damaged by strong winds the ANDROMEDA, a four-masted British bark out of Belfast, Ireland arrived at the Erie Basin with tattered sails. The passage was hard on the crew: “Frank Dunn a seaman apprentice, fell from the rigging and...
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In The Brooklyn Standard Union’s column about reader’s interesting experiences, Gustave tells how a BIG cat gave him the shock of his life when he visited a tramp steamer docked in Erie Basin. (A tramp steamer is ship without a fixed...
