The issue of affordable housing is always an issue in the greater Red Hook, Brooklyn area, as it is elsewhere, but it is particularly relevant at the time of this writing (Spring 2025) when the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is pushing...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Molly Ivins of the New York Times in her November 1981 piece, RED HOOK SURVIVES HARD TIMES INTO NEW ERA provides a historical overview of the place. Today, Red Hook is usually defined as the Brooklyn peninsula near Governor's Island,...
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...
Interviewed in 2013 at age 19, Rasheed Johnson, a resident of NYCHA’s Red Hook houses, talks about how the neighborhood has changed in the past 8 years since he got here. Development has eliminated all his “hang out spots” except for Valentino...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Red Hook Point in the mid-1800s was just beginning to be developed. In an irregular way, shanties dotted the shoreline. Some of the residents of these homes would sit under their awnings scanning the waters for loose timbers and other prizes...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
According to the The New York Press in 1899, the Atlantic Docks made the surrounding area of Columbia Heights less desirable for the well-to-do. They left for more "artistic" places, leaving in their wake lower rents for "a cheaper class of...
