Pier 30 at the foot of Irving Street, Brooklyn, September 10, 1918. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company. Pier 30 today is part of the Red Hook Container Port. Irving Street has been swallowed up by the container port and no longer exists. It...

Photo of three mustachioed Italian dock workers reported to be taken at Pier 30, Red Hook, Brooklyn  on November 6, 1918.   (photographer unknow to us)

The 1970s were a tough economic time for the Brooklyn waterfront. Containerization of ship cargo had reduced the number of jobs, and many of those jobs had moved to facilities in New Jersey. The City and the Port Authority had a plan to build a new...