By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Alexandros Washburn, an architect, urban planner and designer experienced first-hand the flooding of his neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Moved to find ways to make cities more resilient he became a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Select passages from The Citizen guide to Brooklyn and Long Island , 1893 [Page 103] A comparison between the commerce of New York and Brooklyn will serve to show the relative importance of the two cities as regards shipping and allied industries....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook WaterStories is a virtual guide to both past and present of this special neighborhood created by PortSide NewYork . We cover the past via our maritime aka "WaterStories" theme. You can search by The map (click the layers at upper right)...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on January 21, 2023 that the city would soon be opening a " Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center [HERRC] at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal to temporarily serve the continued influx of asylum...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
December 5, 1860, the slave ship ERIE was sold at government auction in Atlantic Basin, Red Hook, Brooklyn. One month prior, the ship had been condemned and ordered to be sold by the United States District Court. This was news of national note...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
April 21, 2013 This is PortSide NewYork's hurricane Sandy story. A personal report by Carolina Salguero, Director of PortSide, speaking as Shipkeeper of the MARY A. WHALEN. This installment covers PortSide's time in port preparing...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hurricane Sandy hit Brooklyn around 8pm on October 29, 2012. which caused devastating flooding in Red Hook. The following are stories, oral accounts and images relating to the superstorm and its aftermath. 1) PortSide NewYork Sandy...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Zoltán Glück was a graduate student when Sandy hit, and he worked with Occupy Sandy doing recovery work in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Occupy Sandy, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, was a major and innovative force for Sandy recovery in New...
