Hundreds of canal boats traveled down the Erie Canal bringing grain and other produce to Red Hook's Erie Basin during the early years of the 1900s.  Each canal boat was both storage and a proper home for not just the skipper but a family. ...

Red Hook's Public School 30 was built in 1868. P.S. 30 was located on the east side of Conover Street between Wolcott and Sullivan Streets.  By 1930 a modern addition was built just to the east of the original building. P.S. 30 was in bad...

Watch the super short videos below to learn about small marine life and how to test for some water conditions next to PortSide's ship the MARY A. WHALEN. Below that, info about larger animal life in, on and around the waterfront in Atlantic Basin,...

Near Christmas time, 1915, a female reporter and an illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, visited a few of the many canal boats and barges moored for the winter in Erie Basin “in search of a story about holiday preparations and winter life.”...

Nelson Street, at the southwest corner of Hicks Street, showing Public School No. 27, erected in 1890. Board of Education of the City of New York September 4, 1930

Street address: Nelson Street & Hicks Street, Brooklyn, NY

Viewed from Huntington Street, north side, east from Columbia Street. The low building in the center background, seen across the lot, is Public School No. 27.. Also shown in 1939 with a new addition to the school under construction.

Street address: Huntington Street & Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NY

PS 27 is shown in 1938, then again 1939 with a new addition under construction. The view is the north side of Huntington Street, east from Columbia Street. The low building in the center background, seen across the lot, is Public School No. 27.....

Street address: Huntington Street & Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NY