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...

Golten Marine, today is a multi-national corporation but it began in the New York basement shop of Sigurd Golten. Golten (June 03, 1908 - January 04, 1986) grew up and was schooled in Norway, there he became certified as a ship's engineer and then,...

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. ...

Henry R Stiles in his 1867 history of Brooklyn references a 1755 census of slaves in Brooklyn: “ from which we learn that there were then in Brooklyn 133 slaves (53 of whom were females), owned by sixty-two persons, among whom John Bargay and...

A 1921 report of New York City’s Chief Engineer considered the feasibility - structurally, financially, and politically - of constructing a Red Hook shoal island to serve as a protective breakwater.  It was suggested that such an island would...

Sample No. 2, Marked from 017 Erie Basin. Found: Numerous small worms resembling round worms, 0r Nematodes. Numerous diatoms, Oogonia, Conferva filaments, bits of wood, considerable plant epidermis. Ulothrix, Botryococcus braunii, Schizomeris...

The Brooklyn Bridge is a suspended by four main steel wire cables. It became the first major bridge of its kind when it opened for service in May 1883 and it's unique design remains essentially the same today. The concept of suspending a bridge with...

NOTE: 7/9/2024  Mat Blak announced will be leaving Red Hook: After 9 years in business, unfortunately, Mat Blak New York is leaving the neighborhood. I have grown to love this neighborhood and all of the amazing people that have supported me,...