By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This image of the Grace Lines warehouse in Atlantic Basin comes from a scrap book (1924-1925 page 28) in the collection of the Seaman's Church Institute. In the background of the photo to the left of the Grace Lines warehouse Governors Island with...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the 1990’s New York’s waterways was less grandiose, than it had been in years prior, but it still had its gems here and there. One such gem, Leonard Thomas, affectionately known as the “Chicken Man'', worked a career that spanned several...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the latter half of the 1800s, grain was king in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Boats loaded with grain would float down the Erie Canal, then down the Hudson River to the grain storehouses of Atlantic Basin, and later, in an even bigger way, Erie...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1953, Thomas Thompson, cook aboard Dalzell Towing's tugboat Datzellera, wrote a guest column for the Brooklyn Eagle's feature Harbor Lights. “I am allocated $10.05 per day to feed six men, three meals apiece, or a total of 18 meals...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The storehouses of Atlantic Dock were originally built for storing goods from ships, but as trade routes changed many were converted into factory spaces. In 1913 the William J. Tulin Company had a large candy making operation, at 1 and 3 Atlantic...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Seaman's Branch of the YMCA, originally established as the Scandinavian Seamen's Mission, hosted 263 unsettled sailors, deckhands, and other maritime men from sixteen nations for Christmas dinner near the piers of Erie Basin in 1938. According...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Brooklyn Life reporter Addison Steele, describes in 1897 the harvesting and pickling of mussles growing on the ramains of ship in Erie basin: A large part of the bull of the sunken Ailsa has been removed from the spot where she went...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1890, Mrs. A. M. Hamilton, a widow, was interviewed in Atlantic Basin, and celebrated by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as being equal to any man running a canal boat. Beginning in the mid-1820s, canal boats brought produce from the nation's...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
AR Hot Bagels 350 Van Brunt Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 (Van Brunt corner of Sullivan Street) (718) 403-9342 M-F 4:30 am-4:00 pm Sat 5:00 am-2:00 pm A sandwich shop focused on bagels and rolls, with some wraps. Bottled juices, coffee, tea and some...
Street address: 350 Van Brunt Street
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Defonte's Sandwich Shop. 379 Columbia Street Brooklyn, New York 11231 718-625-8052 Hours: Monday to Saturday 6 am to 4 pm Closed Sunday Don't be put off by a long line, their large and speedy staff cranks out sandwiches fast! The Red Hook...
