By The Red Hook WaterStories team
New York Water Taxi (NYWT) has jaunty boats painted to evoke old-fashioned New York checker cabs, bright yellow with a trim of black and white checks. The company was founded in 2002 with backing from Douglas Durst. It was based from the start in...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Life Line Mission is the new name given to what has been known for twelve years as the Red Hook Mission in South Brooklyn, at No. 412 Van Brunt Street. It is devoted exclusively to sailors, and has a good reading room, chapel and dispensary....
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
The Main entry for the Atlantic Basin Iron Works is HERE The Atlantic Basin Iron Works was a marine repair business located at 168 Van Brunt Street. In the early 1920s, Joseph F. Moran was Vice President and Joseph A. Moran, Treasurer. It is not yet...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the 1850s, John Boyd was an agent, most likely for the shipping business. His office was on Van Brunt opposite the Atlantic Dock. If this is the case then his would have been one of the many jobs created in brooklyn with the opening of the...
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The Van Brunt family was a well-established early Dutch family who settled in New Utrecht. This street may be named for Rutgert Van Brunt who was a member of the NYS Assembly from Kings County from 1783-1784.
