The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in the early 1900s was headquartered at 116 Imlay Street, near the Atlantic Basin.  The company, generally known as A&P,  started in Manhattan in 1859 as a retailer of tea brought in by...

D efalcation. John Wright, a storage keeper at Atlantic Docks, N.Y. and a defaulter to a considerable amount, left for France in the steamer United States, on her last passage.  One house in New York, it is said, will be a loser by him to the...

The Red Hook Coffee shop is a vintage store with a "curated selection of VINTAGE PIECES Clothes - Furniture - Design" and coffee The Red Hook Coffee Shop is a new imagining, with new owners, of a long-time Red Hook institution.  If you remember...

Red Hook Lobster Pound is a growing lobster empire that began here in Red Hook and now includes food trucks in NYC and DC, a shop in Montauk and two other locations in NYC. The Red Hook location has a store that sells live lobsters, a take-out...

The large Red Hook, Brooklyn estate of Jordan Coles was put up for sale on June 2nd, 1836, following his death. The map shows the Gowanus Creek, before it was turned into a canal; mills and mill ponds; scattered houses and a mansion, not aligned...

In 1950, Mrs. Callahan, born in 1853 looked back at nearly 100 years of living in Red Hook. She remembered farm animals, the 'Meadows', streams, flooding and ice skating on a pond that formed where Coffey Park is now. ● … I was born in the old...

Red Hook Food has replaced the Family Food Center that had previoiusly been at that location. Inside this unassuming store, Rahim Mohamed makes  uncommon " Ocki sandwiches" with pop tarts, snacks, whatever except pork, added to them ...

The large Red Hook, Brooklyn estate of Jordan Coles was put up for sale on June 2nd, 1836, following his death. The map shows the Gowanus Creek, before it was turned into a canal; mills and mill ponds; scattered houses and a mansion, not aligned...

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...

In 1881, the Excelsior Stores grain warehouse and grain elevator in Atlantic Basin burned in a massive fire. Here is an article from The New York Herald , Monday, June 13, 1881, describing the conflagration:   THE EXCELSIOR STORES BURNED. -- A...