By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Conover Street was most likely named after John Conover who in 1757 owned a large property bordering on a mill pond, which was roughly defined by today's Court, Summit and Hamilton Streets. An article in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle , February 26, 1910...
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Coles Street opened in 1850. It was likely named after Jordan Coles, who, among his various enterprises, ran a one of Brooklyn's seven water powered mills in the early 1820s. Together the mills produced most of Brooklyn's flour, over 6,000 barrels...
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Coffey Street was originally Partition Street. Partition Street ran, in part, along raised land separating areas prone to flooding. Local residents would leave their small boats near Partition Street. On November 30 1891, the street was...
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Clinton Street is named in honor of Dewitt Clinton. He served as Governor of New York and was one of the key forces behind the construction of the Erie Canal. Hezekiah Pierrepont reportedly proposed DeWitt Clinton's name.
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Church Street was renamed W. 9th Street around 1911. The street might have been originally named after Rodney S. Church, a successful lawyer and civic leader.
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Centre Street was officially plotted and named by the City of Brooklyn in 1835. Centre Street continues as Centre Mall through the Red Hook East Houses.
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Elizabeth Street was renamed Beard Street Dec 14, 1865. Elizabeth was one of the older streets in Red Hook, officially listed at least as early as 1817. William Beard (1806-1886) was an Irish immigrant, who gained his initial success building rail...
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The RMS TITANIC fatally struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, tragically cutting short her maiden voyage. Survivors were rescued and brought to New York by the SS CAPATHIA. Also on board were 12 or 13 of the Titanic’s lifeboats. Titanic's wooden...
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Vladi Banjac of Estate4 with a large stripped bass that he caught off the foot of Wolcott Street. Large in the background is the Queen Mary 2, which docks at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in the Atlantic Basin.
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A story of a friendship between "Joe" Tynan and "Bill" Todd. They started out driving rivets together at the at the same shipyards and both became presidents of large corporations. In 1921 Joseph H Tynan was the vice-president and Pacific Coast...
