By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Island Vibes serves " cuisine such as Tropical Madness, Carrot Juice, Bubble Tea, Wheatgrass, and Peanut Punch." The food truck out front is owned by same business. Website Instagram Address 395 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn NY. 11231 Phone (347) 529-5807...
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Here's a story about a color that involves our oil tanker, high fashion, interior design and Egypt. Yes, we said that. The MARY A WHALEN, originally the S.T. KIDDOO, was launched in 1938. In the many years since, her walls (bulkheads in ship...
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Thank You Have A Nice Day is a boutique store which primarily sells hand-made clothing but also carries some ceramic and pantry items. From their website: "Thoughtfully hand-built, Thank You Have A Good Day is a genuine, tactile...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Low Tide Motors Is a non-profit motorcycle club. With membership comes a 24/7 parking space and garage complete with a full range of bike tools. From their website: "Our mission is to provide the best equipped garage at the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Down the Gowanus is a modern folk song by Steve Suffet. The Gowanus Canal is a man-made industrial water way built and streightened in the 1860s from an existing creek. The Gowanus has played a valuable role in Brooklyn's...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
“So little opportunity have women had hitherto for demonstrating their capability for business, that it can only be indicated by the success of some particular woman in some unusual and exceptional pursuit; and I know of no better illustration...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This is not the origin story for the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, created by Harold Gray and first published in 1924, but it is the story of a little orphan girl named Annie who was adopted by a wealthy family. In 1908, the Annie of our story...
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Looking for a notary? Here are a few notaries in Red Hook. Betty Bernhart Red Hook Initiative (RHI) English and Spanish Mon - Fri, 10am - 3pm, 4pm - 8pm Sat - Sun, 10am - 6pm Call for an appointment 347-733-7948 betty@rcicenter.org...
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American competition with China goes back centuries. To compete with China’s silk industry, white mulberries were imported into the American colonies because silkworms only eat white mulberry leaves. It is possible, however, that, to protect...
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A shipment of animals destined to zoos arrived in Red Hook's Atlantic Basin in 1922, too good a story for the Evening Telegraph to pass up. The early 1920s saw the continued progression of an increasingly globalized world that was emerging in the...
