By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A cheat sheet for the bell and jingle code hangs in the fidley of the MARY A. WHALEN. It can be seen in the related entry Bells are Direction, Jingles are Speed which lays out the system. The bell and jingle code was used by the captain...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Dee Shapiro began her career as a pattern painter and was included in the Pattern and Decoration at P.S. 1 in 1977. After exploring the Fibonacci Progression in color on graph paper and experimenting with paintings within a grid, she became...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The concept of quarantine has been around for a long time. As early as A.D. 549, the Byzantine emperor Justinian ordered the isolation of people traveling from places ridden with the bubonic plague. Not dissimilar to the social distancing in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The sweet story from the Atlantic Docks, reprinted in full below, ran in the Towanda, Pennsylvania's Bradford Reporter, on December 22, 1864. This good natured human interest story, with little doubt copied from another newspaper, is notable in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Polish born, Vienna based artist, Joanna Zabielska came to Red Hook, Brooklyn for a one month residency at de-construkt in January of 2020. Title of the project: The Little Mermaid Statement of the project: By some magical coincidence,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ralphie Balzano's garage, as captured in artist Jen Ferguson painting is one of Red Hook's distinctive places. The garage can be seen next to the modern Brooklyn Crab on Reed Street. Artist Jen Ferguson's artwork can be seen,...
The Red Hook Water Stories team was very gratified to learn that author Mark Morrin, used RedHook Waterstories as a source for his 2019 e-book Farewell and Adieu Old Boatmen of Red Hook, and even more grateful that he has allowed us to make...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
During the 1920’s the borough of Brooklyn, New York, which roared with speak-easies and flapper dresses, promised an additional lure of luxurious living, as reported by the E.K. Titus in the article, "Carefree Life on Lighters in Harbor...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook Grain Terminal, is a large cement structure, erected by New York State in 1922. It's purpose was to store grain arriving from the Erie Canal. Located at the foot of Columbia Street, at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal, the 54-bin...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Col. Daniel Richards witnessed the construction of the Erie Canal and understood that there was great potential for a shipping hub in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The Atlantic Dock Company was chartered by New York State on May 6, 1840 with a plan for a...
