By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This map was published in 1938, the same year that PortSide's historic ship MARY A. WHALEN was launched. On this map, Red Hook is mostly in red except for industrial and commercial areas. The practice of 'redlining' is now illegal. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Bethesda Mission was founded in 1899 by local members of the Lutheran Church of America. Their purpose was to provide a steadying religious influence for young people. In 1905, they built the building at 22 Woodhull Street, Brooklyn. It had room...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The RIVER BELLE, a side-wheel steamer, is a fine example of how the uses (and names) of a ship change over time. Between 1846 and 1894, she had three different names and as least as many owners. Significantly for Red Hook, she shuttled passengers...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Many tugboats waited out the rough seas of a 1906 winter storm in the protected waters of the Atlantic Basin. They were: ANNIE R. WOOD Carroll Brothers’ CARROLL BOYS and STERLING CASTOR EDWARD ANNAN F. A. Egerton’s tugs DEFIANCE and HIAWATHA...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Frank Zotti, advertised in The New York Herald, October 1905 , that his U.S. Steamer BROOKLYN would debark from the Atlantic Basin to Fayal (Azores), Naples, and Genoa. Franjo (Frank) Zotti (1872–1947) immigrated to New York...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Workers fixing a ship propeller at Todd's Shipyard, Erie Basin, Brooklyn ca. 1950
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A shopping tour in Italian Red Hook included all types of food: snails, fresh vegetables, rabbit, squab, octopus, cheese, olive oil, beans, and garlic. Throughout the 1900s , Red Hook had a very large Italian population, many of whom earned their...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the late 1950s the Atlantic Basin was altered to make it more suited for cargo trucks. To do this roughly the back half of the basin was filled in and a new long metal warehouse shed, with raised loading docks, was built. This is what...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The tugboat strike in the Winter of 1946 brought NYC to a standstill. The workers were unhappy with their wages, and felt that since WWII was over they deserved an increase. The tugboat owners did not agree. 3500 workers went on strike on February...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Standard Union in their Sixty-Fifth Anniversary edition, published in 1928, looked back at Col. Daniel Richards' dream of Atlantic Basin and called it a success. "Atlantic Basin a Dream Realized. The famous Atlantic Basin, $640000...
