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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 2014, re-purposing construction began on the former New York Dock Company building at 160 Imlay Street. The building was built in 1910 as one of the first cast-in-place concrete structures designed as a warehouse for cargo shipped in and out of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The New York Dock Buildings at 160 and 162 Imlay Street were built to be key structures in the New York Dock Company's early twentieth-century Atlantic Terminal operations. The buildings were abandoned for some time, but today are being re-purposed....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This is an article about Canopis, the dog. Born in Red Hook, he was owned by a local fish dealer who fed him a steady diet of fish. According the the article, this diet led to him develop webbed feet and other sea-creature-like deformities. One day,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Originally from Norway, Otto A. Hansen came to the United States as a young man. After serving in WWII, he opened a bar at 117 Columbia Street. The bar was very popular with sailors; Otto would often go down to the docks and give them comical...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
An aerial view of Atlantic Basin, ca. 1965. In the foreground is the rail car float; several cargo ships are in the background. Neither the buildings nor the car float exists today.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Around 1895, the several and various Brooklyn dock and warehouse companies, including the Atlantic Dock Company, merged into a trust called the Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company. Old monied names such as Pierrepont - there is a street named after...
This essay includes the a contextual history of the Columbia Street Waterfront, as well as a specific site histories of Block 334, 51 Union Street, and 60 Sackett Street.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The India Wharf Brewing Company was formed in 1880 to brew beer, ale, and porter. Their initial capitalization was $1,000,000. According to Wine and Spirit Gazette of that year, the company was formed with a plan to share profits with liquor dealers...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
During Prohibition (1920 -1933), the many, bustling working piers of Red Hook made this neighborhood a good place for smugglers to move large quantities of alcohol, often using innovative speed boats to evade federal agents. On June 3, 1922, at the...
