By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hamilton Avenue Ferry house in Red Hook with two horse-drawn wagons and several people in the foreground. Clicking on the TAG Hamilton Avenue Ferry below will bring you to a list of related stories such as: How the Hamilton...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Image of employees at the H.W. Ramberg Company plant on Van Dyke
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Architectural photographer John Bartlestone was one of many who called for the saving of Todd shipyard in Erie Basin. For more than 140 years - until February 2005 that graving dock had been used to repair large shipping vesels. This photograph is...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Gowanus Canal photographs, 1932-1937 by Percy Loomis Sperr. Top image: New York State Barge Canal Grain Elevator Lower image: Paramount Brick yard Larger scale image can be seen on the New York Public Library website.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Grain elevators once towered in Atlantic Basin, as can be seen in the etching published in Harper's Magazine in 1871. They transfered grain from ship to warehouse or ship to ship, and stored grain withing themselves. Canal boats traveled down...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Construction on Pier 11 began in 1956. According to this newspaper article the three berth pier was estimated to cost nearly 7 million dollars. The project resulted in the demolition of thirteen Civil War era warehouses in the area. Text of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Merchant Stores had a large hydraulic press that it used to compress cotton bales. In 1891, people complained that when "exhaust steam was blown off it made a noise that sounded like a cross between the bellow of a bull and the scream of a tiger...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Cotton was king in Red Hook from the 1870s to 1910. In 1901 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle more than once used the headline "Much Cotton in Red Hook" to describe how "the cotton docks and warehouses at Red Hook and the German-American stores at the foot...
