PortSide NewYork acknowledges that we are are land and waterways that are the homeland of the Lenape, a place they call "Lenapehoking."  The Lenape were displaced by European settlers and forced to move as a group multiple times to several US...

The Red Hook Art Project (RHAP) is a tutoring and mentoring project that organizes professionals to volunteer to provide gifted, under-served children and youth with free classes and tutoring in visual art, music and homework help. "An Arts Tutoring...

Good sized, new supermarket that is much larger than a bodega but smaller than NYC's bigger supermarkets.  Has an ATM 58-60 Lorraine Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 Phone:   (718) 858-4343 Hours: Mon-Fri: 6am-10pm, Sat-Sun: 7am-10pm

Grain elevators once towered in Atlantic Basin, as can be seen in the etching published in Harper's Magazine in 1871.  They transfered grain from ship to warehouse or ship to ship, and stored grain withing themselves. Canal boats traveled down...

During Spring semester 2024, PortSide is working with a Pratt Institute graduate student class on "participatory plannning" taught by Beth Bingham. We recommended Wally Bazemore as a resource for the class, and he came to speak during a session...

A destination bakery and cafe that has been featured on national TV.  It attracts locals and customers from across the city.  Some lunch options in the form of pre-made sandwiches and salads.  They also sell their own cookbooks and a...

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...

Lil Larry's Liquor & Wine A liquor store in Red Hook. Open Mon-Sat 8am-8:30pm, Sun 12-6 pm Address:  54 Lorraine St, Brooklyn, NY 11231 Phone: (718) 624-0200

A small blurb in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle , July 1852 paints an image of scrappy Red Hook. A man named Hayes, who keeps a junk store in Red Hook Point, was taken before Justice King this morning, on a charge preferred against him by David W. Sweet,...