By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook Point in the mid-1800s was just beginning to be developed. In an irregular way, shanties dotted the shoreline. Some of the residents of these homes would sit under their awnings scanning the waters for loose timbers and other prizes...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Rum-Runners smuggling liquor on motor boat. The boat's development was an economic one, the rum runners needed faster boats! During the Prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. (1920-1933) rum and other hard liqueurs were frequently smuggled in by boat....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Photo of S.S. CARPATHIA in Dry Dock 4 at Erie Basin Brooklyn, taken December 19, 1913. A year earlier the S.S CARPATHIA rescued 705 survivors from the RMS TITANIC
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Advertisement for Todd's Shipyards in 1921 editions of The Marine Journal , " America's Leading Marine Weakly ". Todd Shipyards Corportaion started in Red Hook, Brooklyn and by 1921 had expanded to New Jersey and Washington State. In Brooklyn they...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the early 1900s, many Puerto Ricans migrated to Brooklyn on the S.S Carolina. Most paid for their passage, but some hid on board - and of that number some made the newspapers. This was the case for 4 sixteen year old boys (three of African...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A building boom was expected for Red Hook Point in 1851. New streets were being constructed and a cotton mill was planned. Cotton was grown in the South but since the opening of the Atlantic Docks, in 1845, shiploads were coming to Red Hook to...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Labor strikes by shipyard workers, maritime workers, and many others were common in the years following WWII. In 1949, The Brooklyn Eagle reported on a union walkout at the Todd Shipyard in Erie Basin, after eight riggers were fired for...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
An aerial view of the Hamilton Avenue Ferry house in Red Hook that includes several piers and other waterfront buildings. The image was taken in 1934 by a Daily Eagle photographer, likely for a story of how the building was condemned and due...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Two atmposheric photos by George Bradford Brainerd. View of three men standing in front of Erie Basin boathouse in Red Hook, 1886. One of the early unofficial names of the area that became Erie Basin was the “Fishing Place,"...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Man sculling in foreground past portion of barge (left), moored steamship (center), and wooden pier and pylons (right); shoreline dotted with masts and sails in background. The photograph is by George Bradford Brainerd, 1845-1887. He was a civil...
