By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"Red Hook Residents Critical of City on Relocation" was the headline of a April 20, 1975 New York Time article. To clear the way for an expanded container port, 220 families - and the buildings they lived in - were slated to be cleared away. ...
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Environmental Assessment SANDRDHK - Red Hook Coastal Resiliency Red Hook, Kings County, New York 4085-DR-NY November 2023 This is a 233 report produced by FEMA, presenting resiliency plans in the wake of 2012's Superstorm Sandy. Link to the...
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See this blog from the O'Connell organization and the Brooklynoneline website here. Also, Ken Burns' documentary " The American Revolution" which started airing on November 16, 2025 has a lot about our area in Episode 3 about The Battle of...
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This 1876 map, a copy of which is in the collection of the Brooklyn Historical Society , is designed to show Brooklyn's shoreline at the time and the salt marshes and shoreline of 100 years prior, before it was built up, filled in drained and...
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A sign spotted in a window of 275 Van Brunt Street, August 2025, announces the coming of a new restaurant Third Time's the Charm. There is currently a fundraising campaign to get the place started. The concept for the resaurant is to...
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By The Red Hook WaterStories team
August 4, 2025 by Carolina Salguero IN MEMORIAM: The renovation and revitalization dynamo of Greg O’Connell, Sr is now at rest. He passed away on August 2, 2025, at the age of 83, surrounded by loved ones. If you love Red Hook as it is now, you...
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The Red Hook WaterStories Team has not had a chance to summarize this 1912 romantic take on Red Hook's canal boat dwellers but you will find similar stories in these stories tagged canal boat
Jerome Krase is an emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor of sociology. Brooklyn born, he " has worked with and studied a wide variety of city-wide organizations as well as neighborhood and ethnic groups in New York City, especially in Brooklyn."...
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