By The Red Hook WaterStories team
From the artist Paul Morris: I'm a NYC based photographic artist who is reconstructing reality. As I see these images, my mind immediately starts to restructure and rearrange them. Photography is my way of capturing these images to create my art....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Donated by the Brooklyn Borough President's Office in 1998, this Deer Isle granite base and flagstaff honors firefighter Louis Valentino, Jr. It was fabricated by A. Ottavino The text on the New York City Parts Department's sign in the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1934 the workers on Isbrandtsen-Moller ‘s Pier 30 near the Hamilton Avenue ferry house were part of an experiment. The Musak Corporation of Manhattan, dispenser of music for, cocktail and dinner patrons, cigar workers, chocolate dippers,...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Charles Yale Harrison best known for his anti-war novel Generals Die in Bed set his second novel A Child is Born (1931) among the poor of Red Hook. He focused on society's ills in hopes of effecting change. A reviewer in the Brooklyn Eagle...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Joe was reeling himself. He stuck his head in a bucket of water and cleaned up the cabin and threw the bottles overboard and started working on the claxon regularly. To hell with ‘em, he kept saying to himself, he wouldn’t be a plaster saint for...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Henry Farrer was born in England in 1844 but moved to America, ending his career in Brooklyn in 1903. He was known for his tonalist watercolor landscapes and etchings. His listed works include On Buttermilk Channel, At Red Hook (1880) and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sketches of the shanties near Erie Basin, by artist Robert Cummings Wiseman, 1930s. Images are in the collection of the Museum of City of New York and can be seen by clicking on the links below: 46.136.7 46.136.8 46.136.9 46.136.10 46.136.11...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Line drawing showing tall masted schooners in Erie Basin. The artwork, done in 1906 by Charles Henry White is in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York: 29.100.2351
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Artist Jacob Bell's sketch of Red Hook, ca, 1935. In the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Link to mcny image .
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Pioneer Works is a center for research and experimentation in contemporary culture. Through a broad range of educational programs, performances, arts and science residencies, and exhibitions, Pioneer Works seeks to transcend traditional disciplinary...
Street address: 159 Pioneer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
