Joe Ruggiero, aka “Joey Chips” since he always showed up at a party with a bag of chips, was a WWII vet who was still driving in 2016 at the time of this interview. He passed in early 2024. He was the embodiment of the Greatest...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Atlantic Stevedoring, in the 1920s, was located on Pier 36 at the end of Pioneer Street. Stevedoring companies supplied physical labor, but also the knowhow to properly load and unload ships both interms of space, weight, balance,security, and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
International Ship Fitting and Supply Co. was located at 27 India Wharf in the Atlanctic Basin, in the 1920s. They operated as a a ship chandler: offering engine room, deck, job and steward's steamship supplies. They also provided lighterage...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Atlantic Basin Iron Works office and large work shops were located at Imlay, Summit, Van Brunt, and Bowne Streets. They did all sorts of repairs a ship might need including on steamship and diesel motors. Publications from the 1920s list the key...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Imlay Street was originally Hudson Street but was renamed in 1861 for William H. Imlay, a large property holder in Red Hook, who both sold land to the Atlantic Dock Company and was a major shareholder.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Creamer Street officially opened in 1835 as Grinnell Street. Mr. Henry Grinnell, a wealthy public spirited merchant wan an original investor in the Atlantic Dock Company. The street was renamed in 1891 for Joseph M. Creamer, a Brooklyn Police...
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Vladi Banjac of Estate4 with a large stripped bass that he caught off the foot of Wolcott Street. Large in the background is the Queen Mary 2, which docks at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in the Atlantic Basin.
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Grain elevators once towered in Atlantic Basin, as can be seen in the etching published in Harper's Magazine in 1871. They transfered grain from ship to warehouse or ship to ship, and stored grain withing themselves. Canal boats traveled down...
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Construction on Pier 11 began in 1956. According to this newspaper article the three berth pier was estimated to cost nearly 7 million dollars. The project resulted in the demolition of thirteen Civil War era warehouses in the area. Text of...
