There is a chart HERE with all the food pantries in Red Hook with days, times, and addresses, created and maintained by Red Hook Mutual Aid.
Books for Brooklyn Boats: Captain Benn's Library Service for Sailors, 1900s
All day and into the night Captain Benn made his rounds of Brooklyn's piers supplying newly arrived vessels with something that he said could keep sailors sane and captains ethical: reading material. Benn had been spreading words for 11 years by...
Christmas Party for jobless seaman, 1934
The Seaman's Branch of the YMCA, originally established as the Scandinavian Seamen's Mission, hosted 263 unsettled sailors, deckhands, and other maritime men from sixteen nations for Christmas dinner near the piers of Erie Basin in 1938. According...
Seaman's Handbook for Shore Leave, 1920
Seaman's handbook for Shore Leave , by United States Merchant Marine’s Social Service Bureau. Custom House, published in 1920 listed sailor’s homes – places were sailors could get a bed and sometimes a meal for a night - from...
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #5195
Post 5195 Red Hook Memorial Post 325 Van Brunt St Brooklyn, NY 11231 (718) 624-9313 Meeting Location & Time 7:30 PM 2nd Thursday of Month Quartermaster: Juri Tassa estographicsinc@msn.com Commander: Michael "Mickey" Chirieleison (no email)...
Street address: 325 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Bethesda Mission, 1905: shelter for needy Norwegian Sailors
The Bethesda Mission was founded in 1899 by local members of the Lutheran Church of America. Their purpose was to provide a steadying religious influence for young people. In 1905, they built the building at 22 Woodhull Street, Brooklyn. It had room...