By The Red Hook WaterStories team
David Bowie music video for his 2013 song "Valentine's Day" is set inside the Red Hook Grain Terminal The same year the music video for Lorde's "Team" was filmed in and around the grain terminal.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Paul Frangipane is a photojournalist based in Brooklyn. He describes his approach as "through an intimate documentary lens, striving to capture the beauty in natural moments and providing creative perspectives on common events." Paul...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A 1921 report of New York City’s Chief Engineer considered the feasibility - structurally, financially, and politically - of constructing a Red Hook shoal island to serve as a protective breakwater. It was suggested that such an island would...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook WaterStories is a virtual guide to both past and present of this special neighborhood created by PortSide NewYork . We cover the past via our maritime aka "WaterStories" theme. You can search by The map (click the layers at upper right)...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Zoltán Glück was a graduate student when Sandy hit, and he worked with Occupy Sandy doing recovery work in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Occupy Sandy, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, was a major and innovative force for Sandy recovery in New...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Matt Kraushar, dubbed “Medical Matt,” set up a Red Hook Sandy recovery medical team. He was a medical student living on Van Brunt Street when Sandy hit. He learned from Katrina that medical issues that were managed under normal conditions...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Local 1814, International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO commemorated their 20 th anniversary in 1974 with a publication celebrating their accomplishments and with a positive outlook for the future. Higher wages, job security, health...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This image is not an actual photograph but a rendering created by the DALL-E AI system following the instructions given to it by Jefe (a real person). He requested that it create: "Boats leaving the dock in Red Hook Brooklyn, at sunrise in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the mid-1800s, lots of kinds of cargo were carried by canal boats from the U.S. inland to Red Hook to be shipped out around the world or to be used in local manufacturing. Grain was one of the largest imports, but some canal boats regularly...