By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Motor Inn is currently a shelter for migrant families, housing about 115 people. Children living there attend local schools. If you would like to support the migrant families, Red Hook Mutual Aid (RHMA) is quite involved, so contact...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This intersection commemorates seven firefighters killed in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. LL :2011/03 [ NYC Honorary Street Names ] The seven firefighters honored are Joseph Gullickson, Brian Cannizzaro, Salvatore Calabro, Thomas...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From NYC Honorary Street Names: At the intersections of Dwight and Delavan Streets Dwight and Verona Streets Midpoint of Dwight Street between Verona and Walcott Streets Dwight and Wolcott Streets Richards and Wolcott Streets Van Brunt and Wolcott...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
[from NYC Honorary Street Names:] Jose “Tuffy” Sanchez (1933-2005) was a Korean War veteran and a community leader in Red Hook. In the early 1960’s, he became co-owner of the 3&1 Social Club in Brooklyn. He was a pioneer in promoting Latin...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Atlantic Dock etched by Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933) in 1888. A three-masted schooner tied up to a pier dominates the left side of the image
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
617 refugees fleeing German-occupied European countries arrived at the foot of Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn in 1941. Crammed aboard the VILLA MADRID, a Spanish liner with accommodation for only 225, they complained about the conditions and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
1932 map of the piers and port businesses from Baltic Street (now called Cobble Hill) moving south through Atlantic Basin around past the Erie Basin, for the War Department / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The map indicates the businesses that...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
RoodGallery 373 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY 347-468-0735 contact info: samar@roodgallery.com http://www.roodgallery.com Exhibition hours:Thurs--Sun 12pm--5pm or by appointment From their website: "Mision is to increase social resilience by...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Month after month a three-mastered schooner was seen anchored off-shore in the Red Hook Flats. On board was just one man who never went ashore. How he got by was a mystery to the few folk who knew of his existence. He was not hiding; he had...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Spanish Freighter NAVEMAR left from Seville. Spain, with 1,120 passengers, in 1941. Most were Jewish refugees fleeing genocide in German-occupied countries. The conditions on the NAVEMAR, a ship designed with only 28 accommodations, were...
