From the caption on the reverse of the image: Bush Street, north side, east from a point west of Hicks Street (seen in the foreground) showing an area soon to be demolished because of the Federal grants making possible the Red Hook slum clearance...

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

Bush Street, north side, east from No. 79. In the foreground center is seen Hicks Street. At the right partially seen is 72 Bush Street. The Red Hook Houses now occupy this area.

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

75-77 Lorraine Street, north side, between Columbia and Hicks Streets. The wooden structure in the center reads "Le Blanc Bros. Stevedores". This location is now part of the Red Hook Houses.

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

Otsego Street (left) north from Creamer Street, showing the Red Hook Houses under construction on the north side of Lorraine Street. The entire block from Creamer to Lorraine Streets is an empty lot. View 2 is north on Otsego Street, from a point...

Street address: Otsego Street & Creamer Street, Brooklyn, NY

105-7 Lorraine Street, north side, between Hicks and Henry Streets. In the background are houses on Bush Street.

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

Lorraine Street, north side, east from Henry to Clinton Streets, showing several old shacks. This area later became part of the Red Hook Houses, the government low rental housing development. On the right is the Sapolin warehouse.

Street address: Lorraine Street & Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY

Newspaper photo of the shacks of Red Hooks "Tin City" or shanty towm (It went by several other names, such as Hoover City, and Orkenen Sur). The large building on the right is the Sapolin Paint Company factory (now Treasure Island) on...

An artist's rendering of a possible future Red Hook that never was. The birds-eye view of the Atlantic Dock was possibly done for the Atlantic Dock Company to promote their vision of what Red Hook could be. The two statements printed on the map...

Historian Henry Stiles writes in his 1884 history of Brooklyn: "The southern portion of the Hook was a high hill covered with locust, poplar, cedar, and sassafras trees. This hill was cut down in 1835 by Messers. Dikeman, Waring and Underhill for...

Photo taken July 26, 1939 from Columbia Street ("long dock"as old-timers call it) of a family posing aboard their home: the canal barge G.W LETHBRIDGE. The G.W. LETHBRIDGE. was a canal boat that transported grain down the Erie Canal to Red Hook's...