The Red Hook Water Stories team was very gratified to learn that author Mark Morrin, used RedHook Waterstories as a source for his 2019 e-book Farewell and Adieu Old Boatmen of Red Hook, and even more grateful that he has allowed us to make...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Artist Michael Arthur created this Valention Pier view. More of his work can be seen at www.MichaelDArthur.com and "Inklines" on Instagram and Twitter
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In honor of the ship MARY A .WHALEN reaching its 80th year PortSide NewYork invited the Urban Sketchers to come and be inspired by her views. Below is some of the artwork made that day. Scattered on, around, and in the Red Hook neighborhood of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"Maritime Messaging" 10/29/17 a collaboration between artist Katherine Behar, PortSide and Pioneer Works. PortSide contributed all the text from RHWS which Behar put through a neural network to "teach water to talk." A video presented moving water,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The maritime language is an international language, which helped foster the following art. One day in November 2017, a man came down the pier and saw our sign about volunteering. He introduced himself saying "I’m a captain in Rome." Federico...
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The Atlantic Dock etched by Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933) in 1888. A three-masted schooner tied up to a pier dominates the left side of the image
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Newly married and recently widowed in 1890 , Jennie Chandler Young began working as a photojournalist to support herself and her two-month old son. Using the moniker "Brooklyn Girl," she worked until 1915 for the New York Herald as a...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Many artists have captured the likeness of PortSide NewYork’ s tanker the MARY WHALEN in a variety of styles from plein air paintings, illustrations and comic art. The artists in this collection are: Stephen Gardne r ...
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Sunny's Bar started out as catering to longshoremen, and hung on as the employment in Red Hook changed Sunny Balzano inherited the place in the 1990s and by dint of his personality turned it into a beloved Red Hook cultural gathering place....
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Lithograph of Bartlet & Greene's warehouses and grain elevators by Endicott & Co ca. 1880. The area depicted is around the foot of Furman Street, slightly outside Red Hook's current boundaries. In the late 1800s Brooklyn was described...
