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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
On August 11, 1845, when word came by telegraph that she was arriving, thousands rushed to see the S.S. GREAT BRITAIN complete her record-breaking transatlantic voyage. One of the popular viewing places was the Atlantic Steamship pier at the foot of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1908, the New York Supreme Court ruled in a dispute between the India Wharf Brewing Company and the New York Dock Company. The case provides some insight into the business of dock companies. The basic facts of the case were: The India Wharf...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
" All day naked youngsters are perched on these logs, watching their bait, chasing each other over the slippery lumber or diving and paddling in the water." A story about naked boys in the late 1800s who fish for crabs among the millions of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ramberg Iron Works paid $650,000 to the receivers of the Atlantic Dock Company for eight and three quarter acres fronting the Buttermilk Channel at the foot of Coffey, Dykman, Sullivan and Wolcott Streets in 1918. The site was within the free...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1910-1920, Coastwise Lumber & Supply Company was a wholesaler and retailer of lumber, including cordwood, dunnage boards and dunnage mats, advertising "steamship trade a specialty." They had two yards in Brooklyn: one at the foot of Clinton...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1922, New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, a strong advocate for expanding the subways, held public hearings on the topic. George T. McQuade of Coastwise Lumber & Supply Co. supported a line that would run down Hicks and Lorraine Streets in Red...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1920, the Red 'D' line advertised that it would sail weekly from Pier 11, Red Hook Brooklyn, carrying passengers and freight between New York, Puerto Rico, Curacao and Venezuela. The line, established in 1838, was owned by Bliss,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Three Star Line - Société Les Affréteurs Réunis - was a French charter shipping line. In 1920, they advertised regular sailings to Spain, North Africa and Marseilles from the Erie Basin, Red Hook Brooklyn.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Porto Rico Line regularly sailed from the Atlantic Basin's Pier 35 to Puerto Rico. The line transported cargo and tourists to and from the islands. Many Puerto Ricans migrated to New York on the line and established a community in Red Hook. In...
