By The Red Hook WaterStories team
"Red Hook Residents Critical of City on Relocation" was the headline of a April 20, 1975 New York Time article. To clear the way for an expanded container port, 220 families - and the buildings they lived in - were slated to be cleared away. ...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Red Hook Containerport Terminal, a joint effort by the city and state of New York and the Port Authority, opened for business, July 6, 1981. Located adjacent to Atlantic Basin, its first cargo was coffee. Click here to see more about the Red...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In June of 1979, scores of local residents attended a meeting of Brooklyn Community Board 6 to voice their displeasure with a plan for the construction of a 70-acre containerport to be built for the Port Authority centering around the Atlantic...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A plan was announced at a press event on May 14, 2024 in the Red Hook Container Terminal with the Mayor, Governor, President/CEO of the NYC Economic Develepment Corporation (NYC EDC) , Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, and Port Authority...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Local 1814, International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO commemorated their 20 th anniversary in 1974 with a publication celebrating their accomplishments and with a positive outlook for the future. Higher wages, job security, health...
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
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...
