On June 6th, 1896 George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen departed from New York's Battery in an 18 foot rowboat destination Europe. Their vessel The FOX, was an 18 foot surf boat was built on the New Jersey Shore, only powered by oars. It took the two men...

Ira S. Bushey & Sons'  was a shipbuilder and oil company based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Remarkably, the company combined three different endeavors: a shipyard, a fuel terminal, and a fleet of vessels that moved fuel. Busheys built around 200...

Street Flooding Report Street flooding to NYC by calling 311 or by going to their 311 website .  There is a detailed questionaire to report flooding on the the website, that allows you to submit images and other attachments.  Sewer Backups...

Crane’s Shipyard and Dry Docks, established in 1867, was located in Erie Basin. A history of the company is provided in George Weiss’s America’s Maritime Progress , published in 1920, and in the 1922  Pilot Lore . According to Weiss, Theo. A....

The 1970s were a tough economic time for the Brooklyn waterfront. Containerization of ship cargo had reduced the number of jobs, and many of those jobs had moved to facilities in New Jersey. The City and the Port Authority had a plan to build a new...

Updates since close of comment period 11/15/23 press release from office of Congressman Dan Goldman:   In short: the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) invoked the agency’s role as formal non-federal sponsor of HATS. NYS DEC’s...

The Red Hook Grain Terminal, is a large cement structure, erected by New York State in 1922. It's purpose was to store grain arriving from the Erie Canal. Located at the foot of Columbia Street, at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal, the 54-bin...

Hundreds of canal boats traveled down the Erie Canal bringing grain and other produce to Red Hook's Erie Basin during the early years of the 1900s.  Each canal boat was both storage and a proper home for not just the skipper but a family. ...