Valentino Pier, drawing by Michael Arthur
Artist Michael Arthur created this Valentino Pier view. More of his work can be seen at www.MichaelDArthur.com and "Inklines" on Instagram and Twitter
Maritime Messaging: Red Hook, 2017
"Maritime Messaging" 10/29/17 a collaboration between artist Katherine Behar, PortSide and Pioneer Works. PortSide contributed all the text from RHWS which Behar put through a neural network to "teach water to talk." A video presented moving water,...
Red Hook Lines by Artist Ester Grossi, 2017
The maritime language is an international language, which helped foster the following art. One day in November 2017, a man came down the pier and saw our sign about volunteering. He introduced himself saying "I’m a captain in Rome." Federico...
Atlantic Docks, 1888 Etching
The Atlantic Dock etched by Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933) in 1888. A three-masted schooner tied up to a pier dominates the left side of the image
American Turtle Submarine 1776 & 2009
The AMERICAN TURTLE was the first submarine used in war. It was in 1776, not far from Red Hook. Invented by David Bushnell, the one-man hand-propelled craft was designed to attach an underwater time bomb to an enemy vessel. On a...
Erie Basin: The Photography of Jenny Young Chandler, 1890-1915
Newly married and recently widowed in 1890 , Jennie Chandler Young began working as a photojournalist to support herself and her two-month old son. Using the moniker "Brooklyn Girl," she worked until 1915 for the New York Herald as a...
The MARY A. WHALEN in art: Depictions of Portside's tanker
Many artists have captured the likeness of PortSide NewYork’ s tanker the MARY WHALEN in a variety of styles from plein air paintings, illustrations and comic art. The artists in this collection are: Stephen Gardne r ...
Hook Arts Media (formerly DTE/Dance Theatre Etcetera)
Hook Arts Media Arts with a focus on social transformation and community Copying from their website: Mission Premised on the belief that the arts are an effective vehicle for social transformation, Hook Arts Media® unites artists and...
Street address: 480 Van Brunt Street
Raaka Chocolate
Raaka Chocolate offers a very Red Hook combo on site of manufacturing, tours of the factory, classes and retail. They make artisanal chocolate bars which you can buy along with chocolate nibs and swag. In the 1910's their building was part of the...
Street address: 64 Seabring Street Brooklyn, NY 11231
Bartlett & Greene's free and bonded warehouses and elevators. Lithograph ca. 1880
Lithograph of Bartlet & Greene's warehouses and grain elevators by Endicott & Co ca. 1880. The area depicted is around the foot of Furman Street, slightly outside Red Hook's current boundaries. In the late 1800s Brooklyn was described...