By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook Containerport Terminal, a joint effort by the city and state of New York and the Port Authority, opened for business, July 6, 1981. Located adjacent to Atlantic Basin, its first cargo was coffee. Click here to see more about the Red...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Lehigh Maritime arrived in Red Hook as friends of PortSide, first by tying up their tug CORNELL alongside our ship MARY A. WHALEN when we were in the containerport on Pier 9B. After we moved out of the port to Pier 11 in 2015, Lehigh joined us...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The 2012 coastal storm surge of Hurricane Sandy flooded over 75 percent of the Red Hook area. The result was huge economic losses and 10,000 people affected. The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) with the New York...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by FEMA but then deleted by the administration of President Trump. The tool lists the risk of extreme heat, hurricanes, and coastal flooding for Brooklyn as very...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
PortSide NewYork posted this question (as Mary Whalen) September 19, 2025: Tug n tanker old timers, what are these old porthole inserts (screen with bonnet) called? They keep out hot sun and rain dripping down the tumblehome and make for new, fun...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In June of 1897 the newly built Pilotboat NEW YORK, tied up at the Atlantic Docks to prepare for its first day of service. The steel vessel was built at Harlan and Wolf’s yards at Wilmington. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Isthmian Steamship Company was a shipping company founded by US Steel in 1910. The company was named after the newly completed Panama Canal at the Isthmus of Panama. In the 1930s the company was split off from US Steel. In...
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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...
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WHAT a thrill!! Surprise visit by two relatives of Ira Bushey who had our ship Mary Whalen built! First Busheys we ever met! Here are sisters Lorraine Novosad and Jamie Russo , Ira's great nieces. We learned alot (did you know that...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"A Red Hook nonprofit hopes to turn a ramp it set up for an injured seagull into a "floating habitat" project to give refuge to city birds." Click here for the article Brooklyn 'Duck Dock' Becomes Prime Real Estate For Birds In Need in the...
