Red Hook Discounts: Mix House 99¢ is a general store stocked with beauty supplies, pet supplies, hardware, housewares, cards, electronics, beverages, craft supplies and the like.  Also an ATM. They opened June 1, 2021. 66 Lorraine Street...

Charly and Chris opened Hooked on Plants in 2021.   Their shop is filled with plants; and during warm months, the sidewalk around their corner store is full of plants too. They sell and even rent plants! You can also rent their space for...

Advertisement for Todd's Shipyards in 1921 editions of The Marine Journal , " America's Leading Marine Weakly ". Todd Shipyards Corportaion started in Red Hook, Brooklyn and by 1921 had expanded to New Jersey and Washington State. In Brooklyn they...

" A modern port is made up of many things, one of the most important besides the fact that a good port must be a good natural harbor for ships, is the vast array of manmade contrivances for the physical handling of...

There is an interview and short video in Spanish at the bottom beneath the photos. Carolina Salguero of PortSide interviewed Antonio "Tony" Piraquive who ran the Red Hook Coffee Shop for years, until 2020.  We then threw a goodbye party for him...

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,...

MorChem Industries is a supply company that distributes general cleaning supplies, janitorial products, personal hygiene, material handling/ safety equipment and related products. They "provide building maintenance and contractor supplies to...

Large garden center that is centered on Van Brunt Street but which has additional items stored around the corner. Annuals, perennials, planters of all sizes. Knowledgeable staff. The firm started in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, hence the...

Smart Tax was "founded in 2005 to fill a void in tax service options: strong customer service, and speed of return to under-serviced tax preparation customers. Smart Tax has grown offering the same great service in communities nationwide. ...