By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Bicycle catamaran found adrift towed to Atlantic Basin reported the Journal, June 23, 1896. "Captain Otto Olfen, of the tugboat R. E. Pettie, picked up the boat floating in the lower bay. The rudder chain was twisted around the screw and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Text of William Bakers obit in the Brooklyn Eagle, April 11, 1940 "William J. Baker Red Hook Native For 40 Years Operated "Billy' Baker's Boathouse - Founded Yacht Club William J. Baker, one of the best know residents of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hundreds of canal boats traveled down the Erie Canal bringing grain and other produce to Red Hook's Erie Basin during the early years of the 1900s. Each canal boat was both storage and a proper home for not just the skipper but a family. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Thousands of Red Hook youth in 1952 experienced being on the water thanks to a summertime excursion that took them up the river and out of the hot city for a day in the country. On August 26, 2500 kids loaded on to a boat docked at the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
May 30 1868, was the first Decoration Day, a day to remember the many soldiers who died in the American Civil War by decorating their graves with flowers. It officially became a national holiday called Memorial Day in 1971. Particularly, in periods...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
All day and into the night Captain Benn made his rounds of Brooklyn's piers supplying newly arrived vessels with something that he said could keep sailors sane and captains ethical: reading material. Benn had been spreading words for 11 years by...
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Excursion barges “bedecked with flags, bunting and streamers” are boarded by crowds, often numbering in the thousands, on that portion of the outside north pier at Atlantic Basin which is closest to Hamilton Ferry “The sight is a most pleasing...
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Soccer off the boats in Redhook... circa late '50s? See that orange arrow? See that field across the street from the pool? Anyone remember foreign crews coming off ships moored nearby (end of Columbia Street?) and them playing SOCCER in that field?...
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Red Hook Ball Fields 155 Bay Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 718 722 3211 M-F 6am-8pm Sat 6am 4pm Sun closed The Red Hook ball fields are part of the 58 acre Red Hook Recreation Center. The fields host leagues and teams; currently 4 of the 9 fields are...
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Valentino Park and Pier Between Coffey and Van Dyke Streets on Ferris St Brooklyn, NY 11231 From the NYC Parks website: "Valentino Pier was once the site of an active shipping industry. In the 1600s, the Red Hook district was settled by the Dutch....
