By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the Spring and Summer of 2019 most of the historic Lidgerwood building was torn down to make way a UPS e-commerce warehouse. Community action was not able to save the complete facade but as of a July 9, 2019 meeting, UPS has proposed...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
On June 6th, 1896 George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen departed from New York's Battery in an 18 foot rowboat destination Europe. Their vessel The FOX, was an 18 foot surf boat was built on the New Jersey Shore, only powered by oars. It took the two men...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Published on Dec 17, 2015 "Mange nordmenn dro til Amerika for å skaffe seg et bedre liv. For noen endte drømmen på en søppelfylling i New York." (Many Norwegians went to America to acquire a better life. A few ended the dream in a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
[Links to the video below] Ørkenen Sur. A Norwegian documentary made in 2015 about the shanty town that existed int Red Hook from the early 1920s to the mid 1930s. Known by names including Ørkenen Sur (the bitter desert), and Tin City. It was home...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This colorful tower was a crankshaft from a ship's engine. Specifically it is from a Baldwin Hamilton Engine. It was out of a ship that was broken up in a ship demolition yard Kearney NJ. Zach Stakis of Aeromotive Engineering bought a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Bird's eye view of Red hook showing the Red Hook Houses and Erie Basin View the image here
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Soon after this photo is taken, the area at the left of the composite photo with just a few scattered houses in an uneven field will become the Red Hook Ball Fields and recreational area. Part of this area had been home to a shanty town, which went...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the early 1920s, the international freight trade collapsed leaving as many as 1,000 Norwegian seamen unemployed and unable to get back home. With little to no income many of them made shelters on a large area of landfill and rubble just north of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
These images are part of the essay The History of Norwegians in Red Hook
