By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hi, I’m PortSide’s ship cat, Chiclet. Listen up. I have experience with this resiliency thing, and my celebrity status can help get the word out. I was listed in Time Out Magazine’s top NYC mascots, you know. I am here to help PortSide...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The NYCHA public housing in Red Hook is the largest NYCHA development in Brooklyn, and the second largest in New York City. It is where the overwhelming majority of Red Hook residents live. Land for the houses was condemned May, 1938, the same month...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Resilient Red Hook (RRH) group was founded as a result of hurricane Sandy by a NYS-funded program NY Rising. It was originally the Red Hook NY Rising Committee. After completing the state-funded work in Spring 2014, the group kept meeting...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Tide + surge + wind over water (fetch) = what you need to know. To calculate the risk of flooding at a location, You need to take the height of the expected storm surge, the time it is expected, and compare that time to the tide cycle in the harbor....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Wondering about Red Hook water conditions like currents, tide height, salinity? And how those relate to storms? Red Hook is home to a high-tech water monitoring device overseen by the Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute that runs the Urban...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hurricane Sandy hit Brooklyn around 8pm on October 29, 2012. which caused devastating flooding in Red Hook. The following 32 interviews are part of a project " Sandy: Tell Your Story" recorded by Emergency Management Methodology Partners (EMMP) in...
This map was researched, created and generously shared with the Red Hook community by Red Hook resident Jim McMahon who wanted to help his neighbors recover from Hurricane Sandy and prepare for future floods. Jim donated the map for fundraisers, and...
This map contains community group research (Gowanus Canal Conservancy / Public Lab) on finding stream restoration opportunities in the Gowanus Watershed. It uses hydrological surface flow modeling by Eymund Diegel. This map looks at alternative...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
1844 Coastal Survey. Red Hook's watery past has a bearing on how this place floods in current times. This map shows the topography at the end of Red Hook's tide mill pond era, meaning that much of what is today called Red Hook is still...
Sandy essentially flooded anyone who built on the former tidal marshes. Map Explanation by mapmaker Eymund Diegel: Red lines are the upland Sandy flood lines (minus part the Fort Defiance Island area which is missing dry non flood area during...
