South Brooklyn Community High School
South Brooklyn Community High School (K698) 173 Conover Street, Brooklyn 11231 http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/15?K698/default.htm
Public School 676
PS 676 27 Huntington Stree This school was formerly known as PS 27, and Red Hook old-timers still call it that, or 27s. As of 2022, it is an elementary school transitioning into a middle school. The school was using the moniker Red Hook Neighborhood...
Public School 15--The Patrick F. Daly School (K015)
Public School 015--The Patrick F. Daly School (K015) 71 Sullivan Street, Brooklyn, 11231 http://www.ps15k.org School's statement: "PS 15 provides a standards-based comprehensive educational program for all our students. Through intense, ongoing...
Summit Academy Charter School
PortSide frequently programs with this charter school that is in the same building as PS 676 elementary school. The building formerly housed PS 27, and old-timers still refer to the building that way. Summit Academy Charter School is a college-...
Street address: 27 Huntington Street
Red Hook Playgroup
Red Hook Playgroup 183 Richards Street, Brooklyn 11231 www.redhookplaygroup.org Playgroup's statement: "Red Hook Playgroup provides a rich, progressive, community-based early education for children between the ages of 2.6 and 5. We believe that all...
PAVE Academy K-8
PAVE Academy Pre-K Program is based at 76 Lorraine Street K-8 school is located at 732 Henry Street Administrative Offices are located at 238 Conover Street paveacademy.org School's statement: "PAVE Schools prepares Prekindergarten to 8th grade...
Erie Basin canal boats, ca. 1900
Canal boats moored in a tightly-packed cluster in the Erie Basin ca. 1900. These flat bottomed boats, moved grain, potatoes and a variety of other produce and goods down the Erie Canal to Brooklyn's Red Hook. In the warm months...
Taking a Dive : Swimming in the Atlantic Basin, 1964
Kids have been swimming off the piers of Red Hook probably ever since the piers existed. It is not common today in part because of the increasing awareness that the polluted water, particularly after a rain fall, is a health hazard. "Taking a...
Tugboat Information
Tugboat Information.com has a searchable website that provides descriptions of tugboats both active and retired.
Flattening Hills to Fill Mill Ponds: 1835
Historian Henry Stiles writes in his 1884 history of Brooklyn: "The southern portion of the Hook was a high hill covered with locust, poplar, cedar, and sassafras trees. This hill was cut down in 1835 by Messers. Dikeman, Waring and Underhill for...