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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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 New York Sun ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Jam'It Bistro offers traditional Jamaican dishes, Irie Soul dishes, and Italian Fusion. Founder Dawn Skeete says , "I decided to do a fusion that represented the various cultural cuisines in Brooklyn: Italian, Chinese, soul food and Jamaican....
Street address: 367 Columbia Street Brooklyn, NY 11231
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Explore The Mary A. Whalen by clicking on the links below and hearing about her places and people. Or read a guide in English, French , German , Spanish , Italian , Urdu Plimsoll Line audio element....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
PortSide NewYork's flagship, the coastal oil tanker MARY A.WHALEN, is our ambassador to the BLUEspace, a museum of herself, a floating education and cultural center, the site of our offices, and the home of famous ship cat Chiclet . A PDF...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Frank's Bike Shop From their flyer: “Bicycle repairs shop, new and used bicycles, bicycle accessories and parts.“ February 2024 news! Frank's has moved from behind the Van Brunt Street gas station to the hot corner of Pioneer and Van Brunt,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Pietro "Pete" Panto was an Italian American longshoreman and union activist who was murdered by the mob for speaking out and organizing against corrupt union leadership. The Red Hook WaterStories team has not written an entry about him yet but...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"Thousands of the Poor Enjoy the Fresh Air on the Piers" was the lede for a July 1892 article in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The article describes the North and South piers of the Atlantic Basin as crowded in the hot Summer...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Bar Mario Italian BAR with KITCHEN Piedmontese and Tuscan inspiration OPEN EVERY DAY!! Email: barmariobk@gmail.com Address : 365 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231 Phone : (631) 616-5695 instagram: /barmariobk Hours: Monday -...
