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Shopping for Dinner in Italian Red Hook, 1937

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

A shopping tour in Italian Red Hook included all types of food: snails, fresh vegetables, rabbit, squab, octopus, cheese, olive oil, beans, and garlic. Image captions: A shopping tour for, the family dinner ought to begin the right way in Red Hook...

Tags: Italian immigrants, Italian-American, shopping

Subjects: Food and Drink

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and how it has gone through Red Hook

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

Instead of building the Brooklyn Queens Expressway down Van Burnt Street, Robert Moses decided to build the highway through Hicks Street thus bisecting the Red Hook neighborhood while connecting the Brooklyn Bridge with the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel....

Tags: Brooklyn Queens Expressway, Hicks Street, highway, Italian immigrants, mass transit, Robert Moses

Subjects: Mass Transit

Shopping for Dinner in Italian Red Hook, 1937

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and how it has gone through Red Hook

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