During Spring semester 2024, PortSide is working with a Pratt Institute graduate student class on "participatory plannning" taught by Beth Bingham. We recommended Wally Bazemore as a resource for the class, and he came to speak during a session...
@Work. An pandemic-era art project presenting essential workers thoughts about their work. 2022
The 2022 public art project, @Work was by Zoe Beloff and Eric Muzzy. Portraits were made of essential workers in acrylic paint. These were then put on banners with QR codes linked to documentary films they made were essential workers describe...
Jose “Tuffy” Sanchez Corner
[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...
U.S. Customs
The mission of the U.S. Customs and Boarder Protection is to "safeguard America’s borders thereby protecting the public from dangerous people and materials." Dangerous materials range from illegal drugs to infected fruit. Customs inspectors...
Red Hook Shipping company
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,...
Red Hook Container Terminal
The Red Hook Container Terminal is run by the company Red Hook Terminals 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...
Jim Ebersole's artwork: Mary A. Whalen in the Red Hook Container Port, 2015-2016
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...
Pier 30 Construction, 1918
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...
Italian Laborers at Pier 30, 1918
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)
Brooklyn Waterfront: Berths or Boondoggle?
The 1970s were a tough economic time for the Brooklyn waterfront. Containerization of ship cargo had reduced the number of jobs, and many of those jobs had moved to facilities in New Jersey. The City and the Port Authority had a plan to build a new...