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Del a van Street was officially listed as Del e ven Street when the City of Brooklyn officially named it. The current spelling might be a correction if, as seems likely, it was named for Delavan Richards, son of Col. Daniel Richards, founder...

Richards Street

Richards Street was named after Col. Daniel Richards. Richards was a visionary developer who set Red Hook on the path to becoming one of the world's major commercial ports. He moved to Brooklyn from upstate New York after seeing the powerful...

Red Hook Building Company

The Red Hook Building Company was the brainchild of Col. Daniel Richards, a man who grew up in upstate New York. When the Erie Canal opened in 1825 and had a powerful economic effect, Richards was inspired. He saw great potential for Red Hook,...

Ramberg Iron Works buys property from failed Atlantic Dock Company, 1918

Ramberg Iron Works paid $650,000 to the receivers of the Atlantic Dock Company for eight and three quarter acres fronting the Buttermilk Channel at the foot of Coffey, Dykman, Sullivan and Wolcott Streets in 1918. The site was within the free...

Atlantic Basin: Looking Back from 1928

The Brooklyn Standard Union in their Sixty-Fifth Anniversary edition, published in 1928, looked back at Col. Daniel Richards' dream of Atlantic Basin and called it a success. "Atlantic Basin a Dream Realized. The famous Atlantic Basin, $640000...

Floating Grain Elevator, engraving 1877

Floating grain elevators were used to move grain up, out of the holds of ships and barges and then top load the grain into storage bins on land or on other vessels. According to Henry R. Stiles in A History of the City of Brooklyn , Daniel Richards...

Map encompassing Red Hook, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Gowanus Canal, 1869

This 1869 map of Red Hook, reveals some of what was there at the there at the time, but also shows the Brooklyn Basin which was approved by the government but never built. Designed at the same time as Erie Basin that part of the plan was never...

Colonel Daniel Richards, Red Hook Visionary

Col. Daniel Richards was a visionary developer who set Red Hook on the path to becoming one of the world's major commercial ports. Inspired by the powerful economic effects resulting from the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, Richards moved from...