By The Red Hook WaterStories team
[from NYC Honorary Street Names:] Jose “Tuffy” Sanchez (1933-2005) was a Korean War veteran and a community leader in Red Hook. In the early 1960’s, he became co-owner of the 3&1 Social Club in Brooklyn. He was a pioneer in promoting Latin...
One behind the other neatly arranged. 300 different vehicles were being loaded onto a ship. The company Red Hook Shipping has been doing this process for years. Therefore, one can assume it is second nature to them. Louis, the owner of this company,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook Container Terminal is run by a company of the same name for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The Port Authority acquired the port in the 1950s, a time when goods were shipped not in standardized truck-size boxes but as...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the artist: In the spring of 2015 artist Jim Ebersole was invited by Portside NewYork to paint and draw the Mary A. Whalen and her surroundings during the last weeks of her time inside the Red Hook Container Terminal. He spent several days...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Pier 30 at the foot of Irving Street, Brooklyn, September 10, 1918. Photographed for the Robbins-Ripley Company. Pier 30 today is part of the Red Hook Container Port. Irving Street has been swallowed up by the container port and no longer exists. It...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Photo of three mustachioed Italian dock workers reported to be taken at Pier 30, Red Hook, Brooklyn on November 6, 1918. (photographer unknow to us)
