By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Here's a story about a color that involves our oil tanker, high fashion, interior design and Egypt. Yes, we said that. The MARY A WHALEN, originally the S.T. KIDDOO, was launched in 1938. In the many years since, her walls (bulkheads in ship...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Soon after this photo is taken, the area at the left of the composite photo with just a few scattered houses in an uneven field will become the Red Hook Ball Fields and recreational area. Part of this area had been home to a shanty town, which went...
Columbia Street, east side, south from the N.E. corner of Creamer and Columbia Streets, showing at the corner the Berg Varnish Co. Inc. building. Beyond it occupying the block between Creamer and Bay Street is the H. Kohnstamm and Co. building. They...
Street address: Columbia Street & Creamer Street, Brooklyn, NY
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Reliance Paint Co. had a facility at 50 Beard Street in the 1920s. The company manufactured structural and marine paint. Red Hook was home to many paint companies. Some of the others were the American Marine Paint Co. and C. A. Woolsley Paint...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In the 1920s, several paint companies made their home in Red Hook. Following the New York Dock Company's construction of large concrete warehouses on Imlay Street, other companies built similar buildings nearby. Paint companies, such as the American...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
R. J. Eckard, vice president and research director of C. A. Woolsley Paint and Color Co., had a large library of barnacles. The collection, started in the 1940s, was used to develop barnacle resistant paint that would ward off the many species...
