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Red Hook is a neighborhood in western Brooklyn, New York City, United States, within the area once known as South Brooklyn.It is located on a peninsula projecting into the Upper New York Bay and is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway and the Carroll Gardens neighborhood on the northeast, Gowanus Canal on the east, and the Upper New York Bay on the west and south.
509.2/km 2 (1318.8/sq mi) Map of U.S. Virgin Islands. Saint Thomas ( Danish: Sankt Thomas, Spanish: Santo Tomás, French: Saint-Thomas) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. Along with surrounding minor islands ...
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.Located on the westernmost end of Long Island, it is coextensive with Kings County in the U.S. state of New York.With 2,736,074 residents as of the 2020 United States census, Kings County is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City and the most populous county in the State of New York.
Red Hook Lane Arresick is a revolutionary war burial ground in Red Hook, Brooklyn. During the Battle of Brooklyn , General Stirling 's retreating forces fought a rearguard action. Continental Army riflemen fleeing the destruction of Fort Defiance fired shots at British troops advancing on the Carnarsie Indian path through Gowanus , killing a Lt ...
Harry Aleman. Harry " The Hook " Aleman (January 19, 1939 – May 15, 2010) was a Chicago mobster who was one of the most feared enforcers for the Chicago Outfit during the 1970s. Aleman got the nickname "Hook" from his boxing career in high school. [1] He is also famous for being the only person in the United States ever to be acquitted of ...
On August 27, 1776, during the Battle of Long Island, five cannons, a series of earthworks and a defensive wall were manned by colonials on an island in New York Bay. [2] It was the westernmost of forts along Brooklyn Heights, defending the Upper New York Bay from incursion by the British navy. [3] Prior to the battle a thousand men worked ...
Sections of Red Hook and Gowanus; Sections of Coney Island; Historical South Brooklyn, especially in the parts of Cobble Hill, South Slope,and Boeurm Hill. Historically and still currently to a lesser extent, significant populations in parts of Greenpoint, East New York, Ocean Hill, Brownsville, Bushwick, Flatbush, and East Flatbush; Manhattan
January 1927. " The Horror at Red Hook " is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on August 1–2, 1925. [2] ". Red Hook" is a transitional tale, situated between the author's earlier work and the later Cthulhu Mythos. Although the story depicts a sinister cult, this cult offers a conventionally occult devil-worshipping ...