By The Red Hook WaterStories team
An injured seagull was spotted off the starboard side of the Mary A. Whalen on May 24, 2026. Harriet Zucker of @RedHookDogRescue has taken the seagull to the Wild Bird Fund. View this post on Instagram A post shared by PortSide NewYork...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Jack Silva was an engineer aboard the Mary A Whalen while she was active oil tanker delivering fuel. photo from FB in memoriam post by Jack’s son Peter Silva Jack shared many stories with us about the engine, the fidley, and also...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Contre la montre "race against time" is a short documentary about climate change created by Canadian students as a project for their school Cégep de Granby in Quebec. They visited NYC in March, 2025. PortSide was contacted to be interviewed in an...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Replanning the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) August 09, 2024 How this blogpost is organized Recent important news and action items are next, below that resources created by PortSide, then other resources and updates. Below that recordings of past...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The New York City Department of City Planning defines brownfields as vacant or underutilized properties where contamination or perceived contamination has deterred investment and redevelopment. With the ultimate goal of creating stratagies for...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Maps dated 1962 of the Railway in Atlantic Basin. Trains moved cargo from ships to warehouses in and near Atlantic Basin. Similar port factilies map are down below.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Welikia is a native ecology mapping project maintained by the Urban Conservation team at the New York Botanical Garden . The map shows what the ecology of New York City, including Red Hook, looked like pefore people started...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"Red Hook Residents Critical of City on Relocation" was the headline of a April 20, 1975 New York Time article. To clear the way for an expanded container port, 220 families - and the buildings they lived in - were slated to be cleared away. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Environmental Assessment SANDRDHK - Red Hook Coastal Resiliency Red Hook, Kings County, New York 4085-DR-NY November 2023 This is a 233 report produced by FEMA, presenting resiliency plans in the wake of 2012's Superstorm Sandy. Link to the...
