By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In June of 1979, scores of local residents attended a meeting of Brooklyn Community Board 6 to voice their displeasure with a plan for the construction of a 70-acre containerport to be built for the Port Authority centering around the Atlantic...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Text of William Bakers obit in the Brooklyn Eagle, April 11, 1940 "William J. Baker Red Hook Native For 40 Years Operated "Billy' Baker's Boathouse - Founded Yacht Club William J. Baker, one of the best know residents of...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
John Ryan-Henry & Austin Becker in their 2020 article in the journal Maritime Policy & Management say that in order to plan for comprehensive climate change resilience it is essential to understand the effects of coastal storm hazards...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook WaterStories team has not yet written much about Red Hook longshoremen, their labor issues and working life. (This project currently receives no direct funds). We hope to remedy that some day but until then here...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hōp (pronounced hope) is slated to open some time in 2025. Bun Cheam and his wife Cait Callahan are opening a a Cambodian restaurant at 358 Van Brunt Street. They are backed by Billy Durney who is the owner of two...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Reclaiming the Red Hook Waterfront: An Analysis of the Urban Maritime Architectural Tradition in South Brooklyn is a 2020 thesis by Emily Conklin presented to the Faculty of the Department of Art History at New York...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Spring Bank, " a community bank with a mission to promote financial inclusion in New York City" opened a branch in Red Hook Brooklyn at the end of 2024. This ended a several year period where there were no banks in Red Hook at all. According...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and the Lenape Center developed a relationship after the BPL contacted them about creating a land acknowledgement. Out of this relationship, at the request of the Lenape Center came the book ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Carolina Salguero, PortSide’s Executive Director, narrated a tour covering the history of Red Hook’s working waterfront (docks) and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal process during a free public sail we offered as part of our visiting vessel...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Mary A. Whalen was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 2012. The National Park Service 's National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. It is part of a...
