Red Hook Container Terminal: 220 families to be displaced. 1975
"Red Hook Residents Critical of City on Relocation" was the headline of a April 20, 1975 New York Time article.
To clear the way for an expanded container port, 220 families - and the buildings they lived in - were slated to be cleared away.
“We fought a long time to save Red Hook and we lost,” said Peggy Caramico, whose Coffey Street home, which has been in her family for four generations, is to be torn down. “Now we're just waiting for advice. We're just so confused.”
The full article is available in the New York Times archives.
This article is related to:
Brooklyn Waterfront: Berths or Boondoggle?
Community Protests plans to expand Red Hook Containerport, 1979
Red Hook Container Terminal, Opens for Business, July 6, 1981
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