By The Red Hook WaterStories team
There are several food pantries in Red Hook that distribute free food. Red Hook Mutual Aid has put together a calendar of times and locations as well as a map of the locations.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Carl Eklof, Sr., founder of the eponymous company Ekloff operated PortSide NewYork's tanker - as an oil tanker, not as she is now, the flagship of a nonprofit - for many years in the creeks and harbor of New York. He died in 2020 at the age of...
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The Red Hook Coffee shop is a vintage store with a "curated selection of VINTAGE PIECES Clothes - Furniture - Design" and coffee The Red Hook Coffee Shop is a new imagining, with new owners, of a long-time Red Hook institution. If you remember...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
click here for detailed weather report This includes an Air Quality Index (AQI). click here for full screen pretty (blue) weather report If you are interested in historical weather data going back to 2023 please contact chiclet@portsidenewyork.org...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A 1921 report of New York City’s Chief Engineer considered the feasibility - structurally, financially, and politically - of constructing a Red Hook shoal island to serve as a protective breakwater. It was suggested that such an island would...
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The German American Mutual Warehousing and Security Company, in 1875, applied for permission from the NY Land office to build out the land and create two new piers near their warehouse bordered by Partition (now Coffey), Conover and Van Dyke...
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Alexandros Washburn, an architect, urban planner and designer experienced first-hand the flooding of his neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Moved to find ways to make cities more resilient he became a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Select passages from The Citizen guide to Brooklyn and Long Island , 1893 [Page 103] A comparison between the commerce of New York and Brooklyn will serve to show the relative importance of the two cities as regards shipping and allied industries....
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Smart Tax was "founded in 2005 to fill a void in tax service options: strong customer service, and speed of return to under-serviced tax preparation customers. Smart Tax has grown offering the same great service in communities nationwide. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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