Updates on the building and the efforts to save it or raze it: June 14, 2018, a fire occurred in historic S. W. Bowne warehouse. FDNY concluded that the fire was arson and "the investigation is still open” (as in "who did it"?) Demo Permit...

Newly married and recently widowed in 1890 , Jennie Chandler Young began working as a photojournalist to support herself and her two-month old son. Using the moniker "Brooklyn Girl," she worked until 1915 for the  New York Herald  as a...

John M. Wright, a sailor, was charged with the killing of Bernard Ferron, a river speculator on March 16, 1878. Ferron, a Red Hook resident, made his living buying and selling scrap iron from ships. When his body was found weighed down with iron,...