By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Pietro "Pete" Panto was an Italian American longshoreman and union activist who was murdered by the mob for speaking out and organizing against corrupt union leadership. The Red Hook WaterStories team has not written an entry about him yet but...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Be it today or 100+ years ago, some people, especially landlubbers, find it difficult to make their way to a particular ship or pier. Would that be deemed newsworthy today? Possibly not, but the following anecdote appeared in the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Golten Marine, today is a multi-national corporation but it began in the New York basement shop of Sigurd Golten. Golten (June 03, 1908 - January 04, 1986) grew up and was schooled in Norway, there he became certified as a ship's engineer and then,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
May 30 1868, was the first Decoration Day, a day to remember the many soldiers who died in the American Civil War by decorating their graves with flowers. It officially became a national holiday called Memorial Day in 1971. Particularly, in periods...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
" A modern port is made up of many things, one of the most important besides the fact that a good port must be a good natural harbor for ships, is the vast array of manmade contrivances for the physical handling of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Basin Art Gallery closed their finial exhibition on January19, 2025, two plus years after their June 2nd 2022 opening. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Basin Gallery & Studios (@basin_gallery_brooklyn) BASIN Gallery & Studios...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The names of things on ships are different than buildings on land. Here are some key words using PortSide New York's MARY A WHALEN as the example. Ship parts: beam: width of the boat bow: front end bulkhead : wall bunk: bed cabin:...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the 1930s, most of the passenger and cargo trade with Japan coming into the port of New York was handled by Brooklyn piers; and one of the biggest players was the Osaka Chosen Kaisha Line that departed from Pier 3 in the Erie Basin. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
There is an interview and short video in Spanish at the bottom beneath the photos. Carolina Salguero of PortSide interviewed Antonio "Tony" Piraquive who ran the Red Hook Coffee Shop for years, until 2020. We then threw a goodbye party for him...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"You don't know what I mean about that job out there do you? I thought not. Well, it's this way. Down here in the towing, and ice and water supply business we have a great deal of competition. No, it is not friendly competition, I might almost say...
