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...
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
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...
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
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
The Red Hook WaterStories team has not yet written much about Red Hook longshoremen, their labor issues and working life. (This project currently receives no direct funds). We hope to remedy that some day but until then here...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Carolina Salguero, PortSide’s Executive Director, narrated a tour covering the history of Red Hook’s working waterfront (docks) and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal process during a free public sail we offered as part of our visiting vessel...
