By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The discovery of germ theory at the second end of the 19th century, following the close of the industrial revolution, brought hygiene to the front of people’s minds. As a result, when they organized committees and groups to keep their communities...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Friends of Firefighters is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing free, confidential mental health and wellness services to New York City's active and retired firefighters and their families . They are headquartered in a revitalized...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Shannon Geis spent months researching the history of Red Hook, reading old newspapers, and, "most importantly, speaking with the people of Red Hook about how they view the community and where they see themselves in it." Her interviews took...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook’s east side is bounded by the Gowanus Bay which funnels into the Gowanus Canal at the Hamilton Avenue Bridge. PortSide’s flagship the tanker MARY A. WHALEN frequently delivered home heating oil to the two Bayside fuel terminals on...
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Carolina Salguero was Associate Curator of the exhibit. Mary Habstritt, President of the Roebling Chapter of the Society of Industrial Archeology (now heading the LILAC Preservation Project) was the curator. Salguero was the mole for the Save the...
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The publication New York, 1894. Illustrated brings readers to New York City, 1894 where companies like R. C. Layton & Co., flourished in an increasingly industrialized and connected new world. Business (as demonstrated by the other examples in...
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In 1889, several newspapers reported on Lawrence Grob, a citizen of Red Hook who earned the nickname “Larry the Bugler'' from his neighbors. Every morning, from his residence on Conover Street, near the Atlantic Docks, Grob used his bugle to wake...
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The commercial focus of Ecotone is sauna and spa design and construction but public works and providing apprentiships is also stated as central to their mission. From their website: " Ecotone was founded in 2010 on the belief that...
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If Robert Moses had his way – and he very nearly did – instead of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel running under Red Hook to the Battery in lower-Manhattan there would have been a bridge. The bridge was proposed in 1939. Despite strong...
