Select passages from The Citizen guide to Brooklyn and Long Island , 1893 [Page 103] A comparison between the commerce of New York and Brooklyn will serve to show the relative importance of the two cities as regards shipping and allied industries....

Construction of The Atlantic Dock - a massive, man-made harbor for all manor of  cargo ships, from deep water vessels to canal boats, began on June 3, 1841.  Less than four years later, in their November 25, 1845 edition, the New Y...

Epidemics, New York in the mid-1800s knew them too well. Cholera was one of the city's biggest killers. The ports of New York Harbor were the economic engines of the region, but the all important shipping was also how outbreaks spread across the...

Complete text of article The Brooklyn Daily Eagle , Sunday March 4, 1900. Beautiful Yachts Which Will Soon Awaken From Their Winter Sleep In The Erie Basin . Pleasure Craft, All Swathed in Canvass, Dormant in Gowanus Bay—Set Apart from the Humble...

April 21, 2013 This is PortSide NewYork's hurricane Sandy story.  A personal report by Carolina Salguero, Director of PortSide, speaking as Shipkeeper of the MARY A. WHALEN. This installment covers PortSide's time in port preparing...

"You don't know what I mean about that job out there do you? I thought not. Well, it's this way. Down here in the towing, and ice and water supply business we have a great deal of competition. No, it is not friendly competition, I might almost say...

Hughes Marine Hughes Bros. Erie Basin Bargeport Billing themselves a “Clearinghouse for Marine Difficulties” and in operation since 1894, Hughes Brothers is Red Hook’s oldest marine firm. They beat by four years Vane Brothers, founded in...

Pietro "Pete" Panto  was an Italian American longshoreman and union activist who was murdered by the mob for speaking out and organizing against corrupt union leadership. The Red Hook WaterStories team has not written an entry about him yet but...