By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Battle of Brooklyn was fought not only across the hills, woods, and fields of our end of Long Island, but also on the waters surrounding New York Harbor. The waterways, were in fact, key to the whole American Revolution. The ship Red...
Synopsis The American Revolution created opportunities for some enslaved Blacks to obtain freedom. Self-interested economic and military reasons prompted the British to declare free, all enslaved blacks in America who joined them in New York harbor...
Defiant in the face of history, or how history is lost and maybe found again History is a hard business in Red Hook. Every local fight to save a historic building (plus, the Todd graving dock) since 2002 was lost. I know; I was...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
At the farthest southwest point of Red Hook sits Valentino Park, a beautiful public space that looks out directly into the New York harbor, and is one of the best vantage points of the Statue of Liberty in Brooklyn. But before the Statue of Liberty,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Henry Onderdonk in his 1849 book: Revolutionary incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties: with an account of the Battle of Long Island and the British prisons and prison-ships at New York, includes a map of the Battle of Long Island, including the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This report authored by Julie Abell Hom of Historical Perspectives Inc for AKRF in 2003 is a study of the site now occupied by IKEA and before that Todd Shipyards and other shipyards before that back to the 1860s. An archaeological assessment may be...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
An archaeological assessment may be required by New York City if a proposed project might disturb historical materials such as Native American sites, historic burial places, or colonial-era foundations. A Phase 1A Assessment is a study of the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In Levi Hutchins' book "Autobiography of Levi Hutchins" published in 1865, he wrote about his experiences in the Battle of Brooklyn. Seleted text from his memoir is below: In the spring of 1776, after the evacuation of Boston, General Washington,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Henry Reed Stiles (1832 – 1902) was an American doctor and historian. He was one of the Founders of the Long Island Historical Society (which became the Brooklyn Historical Society and then merged with the Brooklyn Public Library to become the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A map of New York Bay and Harbor and the environs to which has been added notations indicating the positions of troops and fleets at the Battle of Long Island, 1776. The 1845 base map is a trigonometrical survey made under the direction...
