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Shaft Alley Saloon by The Red Hook WaterStories Team

Feb 25, 2018 brooklyn,brooklyn history,brooklyn organizations,mary a. whalen,portside,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,Shaft Alley Saloon,waterfront history

“We have mostly men here – very few women. No unattached women permitted at the bar. That’s a simple way of preventing trouble.” One of the best known watering holes in Red Hook was the Shaft Alley saloon. Fortune magazine, in a 1937 essay about the New York Waterfront, said” You won’t find enlisted men over on […]

Brooklyn Spar Company By The Red Hook WaterStories Team

Dec 11, 2017 Atlantic schooner,brooklyn,brooklyn history,brooklyn spar company,columbia waterfront,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,waterstories

In 1921, the Brooklyn Spar Company advertised in The Marine Journal that it sold wooden masts and posts for derricks and flag poles, which the company made at its waterfront facility at the foot of Columbia Street. In O.R. Pilat’s 1929 article, John J. Murphy, a 40-year veteran of the Brooklyn spar business, said that during World War […]

Tug Talk: Mariners’ Names for Red Hook

Nov 13, 2017 brooklyn,brooklyn history,brooklyn maritime history,maritime history,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,water sories,waterstories

By The Red Hook WaterStories team Tug captains use landmarks (points on land visible from the water) to tell other mariners and the Coast Guard VTS (Vessel Traffic Service – the harbor equivalent of air traffic controllers) where they are. This is not always as straightforward as it sounds, but it is proof that maritime […]

Overspreading on transit seats ca. 1850. Contentions on the Hamilton Avenue Ferry

Oct 26, 2017 brooklyn,brooklyn history,hamilton ave ferry,hamilton ferry,maritime history,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,union ferry company

By The Red Hook WaterStories team All was not peaceful on the new Hamilton Avenue Ferry. People, particularly in the evening, were sprawling out across the benches, and extra deckhands were hired to keep the order. One of the directors suggested adding dividing armrests, but the Chief Engineer feared they would provoke ridicule. Overspreading to […]

Shaft Alley Saloon by The Red Hook WaterStories Team

Feb 25, 2018 brooklyn,brooklyn history,brooklyn organizations,mary a. whalen,portside,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,Shaft Alley Saloon,waterfront history

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Brooklyn Spar Company By The Red Hook WaterStories Team

Dec 11, 2017 Atlantic schooner,brooklyn,brooklyn history,brooklyn spar company,columbia waterfront,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,waterstories

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Tug Talk: Mariners’ Names for Red Hook

Nov 13, 2017 brooklyn,brooklyn history,brooklyn maritime history,maritime history,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,water sories,waterstories

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Overspreading on transit seats ca. 1850. Contentions on the Hamilton Avenue Ferry

Oct 26, 2017 brooklyn,brooklyn history,hamilton ave ferry,hamilton ferry,maritime history,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,union ferry company

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