By The Red Hook WaterStories team
NYU Graduate students partnered with the office on NYC Councilmember Alexa Avilés in 2025 to create a report and recommendations on the "Revitalization of the South Brooklyn Waterfront" with a particular focus on Red Hook. Here is...
The premier of this film was on May 29, 2025 with an open discussion afterwards. This occurred on the Waterfront Museum Barge in Red Hook, co-hosted by them and PortSide NewYork. More screenings are being planned for June 2025. This film was created...
The issue of affordable housing is always an issue in the greater Red Hook, Brooklyn area, as it is elsewhere, but it is particularly relevant at the time of this writing (Spring 2025) when the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is pushing...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Molly Ivins of the New York Times in her November 1981 piece, RED HOOK SURVIVES HARD TIMES INTO NEW ERA provides a historical overview of the place. Today, Red Hook is usually defined as the Brooklyn peninsula near Governor's Island,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In June of 1979, scores of local residents attended a meeting of Brooklyn Community Board 6 to voice their displeasure with a plan for the construction of a 70-acre containerport to be built for the Port Authority centering around the Atlantic...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
During the 1970s, there was a long-running discussion about what to do with the Red Hook waterfront after the creation of containerization. There was a plan for a larger containerport running the length of the western shoreline that did not...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
During Spring semester 2024, PortSide is working with a Pratt Institute graduate student class on "participatory plannning" taught by Beth Bingham. We recommended Wally Bazemore as a resource for the class, and he came to speak during a session...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The discovery of germ theory at the second end of the 19th century, following the close of the industrial revolution, brought hygiene to the front of people’s minds. As a result, when they organized committees and groups to keep their communities...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Carolina Salguero was Associate Curator of the exhibit. Mary Habstritt, President of the Roebling Chapter of the Society of Industrial Archeology (now heading the LILAC Preservation Project) was the curator. Salguero was the mole for the Save the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Shantytowns are a feature of 19th century Brooklyn and New York City. They were the low-income housing of the day, often for newly arrived immigrants. In Red Hook, the presence of shantytowns is directly related to the waterfront (eg, low-lying,...
