The area between Erie Basin and Columbia Street was home to a makeshift shantytown community known as Tin City, made up largely of unemployed and under-employed maritime workers in the 1920s and 30s. In the winter of 1932, the Brooklyn Eagle...

Maps showing the current property lines of IKEA, Thor Equities, and the Erie Basin Bargeport in the Erie Basin. We include these to show how there can be private property under water in general, and that the Erie Basin waterspace is not a public...

This article from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, March 12, 1911, recounts the winter-time lives of Erie Canal barge families who winter in Erie Basin. Colonies of Cozy Canal Boats Cluster for Winter City of Inland Navigators Prepares for Annual...

Soon after this photo is taken, the area at the left of the composite photo with just a few scattered houses in an uneven field will become the Red Hook Ball Fields and recreational area. Part of this area had been home to a shanty town, which went...

In the early 1920s, the international freight trade collapsed leaving as many as 1,000 Norwegian seamen unemployed and unable to get back home. With little to no income many of them made shelters on a large area of landfill and rubble just north of...

Columbia Street, west side, north of Verona Street. At the left is seen the American Can Co. on Dwight Street, between Delevan and Verona Streets. Also note sign in background reading "Hardwood Lumber". The structure for the American Can Company is...

Street address: Columbia Street & Verona Street, Brooklyn, NY

56-60 Sullivan Street, north side, west of Richards Street. None of these structures exist today. The location is now fenced-in parking.

Street address: Sullivan Street & Richards Street, Brooklyn, NY

74-82 Sullivan Street, north side, between Richards and Van Brunt Streets. None of these structures exist today. The location is now occupied by a brick building, listed (in 2013) as "Residential Loft Building"

Street address: Sullivan Street & Richards Street, Brooklyn, NY

Bush Street, south side, east from Otsego and Dwight Streets to Columbia Street. Most of the area seen in the foreground was in 1929 designated as Todd Field.

Street address: Bush Street & Otsego Street, Brooklyn, NY

Bush Street (trees thereon), south side, east from Columbia to Clinton Streets. In the background on Clinton and Bush Streets is the Sapolin Co. building. Also shown is 501-507 Columbia Street, south from Bush Street. Most of the seen area in this...

Street address: Bush Street & Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NY