Red Hook Conservancy (formerly Friends of Red Hook Recreation Center) a dvocates for the Red Hook Recreation Center and engaging in stewardship of Red Hook park spaces. Address:  155 Bay St.  Brooklyn, New York Website:...

Street address: 155 Bay Street

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...

Donated by the Brooklyn Borough President's Office in 1998, this Deer Isle granite base and flagstaff honors firefighter Louis Valentino, Jr. It was fabricated by A. Ottavino The text on the New York City Parts Department's sign in the...

Cast in 1939 by Marugg, the architect of the pool building was Aymar Embury II. This was a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

" You Brooklynites who rush to Coney or Rockaway at the first blush of a hot day don't know your town so very well, " read an article in  The Standard Union  in 1929. " To be actually in the 'swim' you are just a nobody until you have visited...

The Alcyone Boat Club was formed around 1867, the first rowing club in the area. It was located at the foot of Court and Smith Streets. "Another aquatic sport has lately become very popular in this city, though but little attempt has been made...

Bush Street, (left) south side, east of Henry Street, showing a new recreational center developed by the City of New York.

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

Lorraine Street, east from Henry Street to Hamilton Avenue, showing in the foreground a recently constructed playground by the City of New York. Beyond it is the Sapolin Co. located on Clinton Street.

Street address: Lorraine Street & Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY

Bay Street (in center of view), between Henry (left) and Clinton Streets (right), showing the Red Hook Play Center as seen from the grain elevator at the foot of Columbia Street. The portion of Henry Street Basin shown running up to Bay Street was...

Street address: Bay Street & Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY

At the end of the 1800s, New York City docked floating pools, known as baths, along the Brooklyn water front to provide relief from the summer heat.  They were protected spaces to swim in the river.  Bath No. 4 was docked at the foot...