Buffleheads In Atlantic Basin
Buoyant, monogamous, punctual, small! Meet the bufflehead, our winter duck friends in Atlantic Basin, Red Hook, and Brooklyn
Fairway Resiliency
The Fairway food market, located in the New York Stores aka Red Hook Stores building built as a warehouse for Erie Basin developer William Beard in 1869, flooded during super-storm Sandy. Afterwards, to make the place more resilient for the next...
NEW YORK HARBOR COLLECTION AND REMOVAL OF DRIFT PROJECT
A report produced by Raber Associates for the U.S. Corps of Engineers in 1984, provides some of the best scholarly research into Brooklyn's water front including Atlantic and Erie Basins in Red Hook. Broadly, the subjects covered in the report are:...
Gowanus Bay Improvement Plan, 1892
This 1892 map by the Corps of Engineers, titled Improvement of Gowanus Bay , New York Harbor shows, in addition to the existing Atlantic and Erie Basins, a proposed basin between Hicks and Clinton streets.
RMC Canvas and Rope
The staff of RMC Canvas and Rope, posing by their hand-made rope fender. This Red Hook company ended its long run serving the maritime industry in 2005.
Irish first Mate never gets off His Ship, 1951
In 1951 the Brooklyn Daily Eagle ran a human interest story about Thomas Dunne, an Irish sailor on a comercial vessel who traveled the world but when docked in Red Hook, Brooklyn would not get off the boat for fear of getting lost in the city. Text...
Gary Shiflett about Bushey, 2016
Oral History
Gary Shiflett, currently a fleet manager, used to work for Ira S. Bushey and Sons and Eklof Marine. In 2016, while standing in the galley of PortSide NewYork's MARY A. WHALEN - a "Bushey boat" - he told of some of his memories...
Captain Nels Helgesen of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company
Captain Nels Helgesen during his long career which began in 1918, commanded every ship of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Line. The home port of the steamship line was in Red Hook's Atlantic Basin. Starting in the late 1910s, their ships...
RED HOOK POINT, Thirty Years in the Slums, 1872
Transcript of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle , December 2. 1872 article: Origin and Progress of Tinkerville, Bunkervillle, Slab City, Sandy Bank and Texas — Peculiarities of Their Populations. There is scarcely a ward in Brooklyn does not...
Atlantic Basin: Where Puerto Ricans Landed in NY, 1906 to 1928
Red Hook's Atlantic Basin was the main port of entry for early Puerto Rican migrants. They traveled on the ships of the NEW YORK & PORTO RICO STEAMSHIP COMPANY" (aka, PORTO RICO LINE). Jose Mendez is quoted in Place Matters , a joint...