Columbia Kingdom Hall Jehovah's Witnesses
Columbia Kingdom Hall Jehovah's Witnesses also known as Red Hook Kingdom Hall Jehovah's Witnesses 423 Columbia Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 (718) 237-0026
Ready Red Hook
Red Hook community members created an emergency plan to cover the 72 HOURS BEFORE AND AFTER an emergency called Ready Red Hook . This plan - for all emergencies, not just floods - was created in the aftermath of the Sandy Hurricane, in an...
Atlantic Basin, ca. 1870.
Three men, possibly stevedores, loading (or unloading) a large barrel on to (or off of) a freighter, sometimes around the the 1870s. The back of the photograph is inscribed "Atlantic Dock". The photograph is by George Bradford Brainerd , 1845-1887....
Fairbanks-Morse Model 37 Marine Diesel Engines brochure
The engine of the MARY A WHALEN is not exactly the same. Ours is a Fairbanks Morse 1938 37E12 6 cylinder direct reversing serial # 808553 450hp, 300rpm. Developed in the 1920s, the engine design was tried and true when MARY was built in 1938...
Bell and Jingle: Questions, Answers and Remembrances on Facebook.
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...
Artist Dee Shapiro
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...
A Quarantine War
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...
A Sweet Story on the Atlantic Docks, 1864
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...
Artist Joanna Zabielska
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,...
Art by Jen Ferguson
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,...