Hurricane Sandy Stories
Hurricane Sandy hit Brooklyn around 8pm on October 29, 2012. which caused devastating flooding in Red Hook. The following are stories, oral accounts and images relating to the superstorm and its aftermath.
1) PortSide NewYork Sandy Story: Saving MARY WHALEN
April 21, 2013 This is PortSide NewYork's hurricane Sandy story. Apersonal report by Carolina Salguero, Director of PortSide, speaking as Shipkeeper of the MARY A. WHALEN.This installment covers PortSide's time in port preparing for Sandy, riding…
2) PortSide recognized as a "Champion for Change." Provides Recovery and Resiliency suggestions at the White House, 2013
Carolina Salguero and PortSide NewYork won a White House “Champions of Change award in 2013 for protecting the MARY A. WHALEN from the storm and then offering Sandy recovery services to Red Hook. The Obama administration was smart and used the award…
3) Sandy Storm Surge map, 2012
This map was researched, created and generously shared with the Red Hook community by Red Hook resident Jim McMahon who wanted to help his neighbors recover from Hurricane Sandy and prepare for future floods.
4) Thirty-two Oral Histories from Red Hook Sandy Survivors, 2012
Hurricane Sandy hit Brooklyn around 8pm on October 29, 2012. which caused devastating flooding in Red Hook. The following 32 interviews are part of a project "Sandy: Tell Your Story"recorded by Emergency Management Methodology Partners (EMMP) …
5) Red Hook day after Hurricane Sandy - Photos by Joao de Souza, 2012
Hurricane Sandy hit New York with great force and water on Ocober 29, 2012. The following day, João de Souza photographed the aftermath and the first efforts of cleaning up and pumping out in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Below is a curated selection…
6) Sandy Damage to Red Hook Trees
2013 Sandy Flood saline impacted tree survey by Eymund Diegel for the NYC Parks DepartmentText on map:"Gowanus / Red Hook Flood Impacts: Post Sandy Flood Tree Leaf Out Percentages. Trees impacted by salt water ponding and salt water flooding…
7) Unveiling of Atlantic Basin Sandy High Water Mark Sign & Red Hook Sandy Flood Map: October 30, 2019
On the 7th anniversary of hurricane Sandy, October 29, 2019, PortSide NewYork unveiled a Sandy High Water Mark sign at the pedestrian entrance to Atlantic Basin/NYC Ferry/Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
8) Inspecting Fort Defiance, 1776
George S. Sproule's 1781 map of the American defences during the Revolutionary War provides a depiction of Fort Defiance. In 1776 Fort Defiance was practically on an island separated by ponds and streams from the rest of Red Hook. The high points on which the Fort was situated are the same high points that did not flood during Hurricane Sandy.
9) Ambiguous Borders: An audio walk through the neighborhood of Red Hook, by Shannon Geis, 2014
Shannon Geis spent months researching the history of Red Hook, reading old newspapers, and, "most importantly,speaking with the people of Red Hook about how they view the community and where they see themselves in it." Her interviews took place…
10) Reinauer Transportation Companies
Five and a half feet of water came over the piers in Erie Basin. All barges that were ballasted and spudded were fine. Only one Buchanan barge, which was not ballasted or spudded, went partially up on the bulkhead...
11) Liberty Gases
Liberty Industrial Gases & Welding SuppliesLiberty Gases have been a supplier of compressed gases and welding supplies for over 25 years.The business, just one block east of Gowanus Bay, was badly damaged by hurricane Sandy...
12) Resiliency: Flood Prep Info for Red Hook
Google Translation: Chinese(中文), Spanish(Español) For our larger collection of resiliency info go here.For Jim McMahon's Red Hook Sandy flood map go here. Please take our short survey about flood prepContact PortSide NewYork…
13) Overview of Red Hook Resiliency Plans, 2016
Post hurricane Sandy, Red Hook continues to be intensely studied by the city, state and federal government as well as by many academics. Jump to aquick overview of multiple government-funded plans and how they interrelate (or don't).
14) Overview of Resiliency Plans for Red Hook, 2016
YES, post hurricane Sandy, Red Hook has been, and still is being, intensely studied by the city, state and federal government; and it is being studied by many academic projects as well. Here is a quick overview of multiple government-funded plans and…
15) Occupy Sandy: Race, Class, and Disaster Gentrification
Zoltán Glück was a graduate student when Sandy hit, and he worked with Occupy Sandy doing recovery work in Red Hook, Brooklyn.Occupy Sandy, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, was a major and innovative force for Sandy recovery in New…
