Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
For so long Red Hook was one of Brooklyn’s most stigmatized neighborhoods, dominated by crime and extreme violence. In the early twentieth century, for instance, Red Hook’s docks were ...
Erie Basin is a man-made harbor and shipping facility in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It is a part of the Port of New York City. Established in 1864, it functions to load and unload ships, store merchandise in warehouses, including grain, and provide dry dock and ship repair services.
The Columbia Street Waterfront District is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City on the Upper New York Bay waterfront between Cobble Hill and Red Hook and situated on the western side of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (BQE). The neighborhood is locally governed by Brooklyn Community Board 6.
There were at least two docks built, although only one remained into the 21st century. The dock contributed to making Red Hook the "center of the shipping industry in New York", and was part of Erie Basin's dry and shipping dock infrastructure, the largest in the city. [1] [2] It was the first graving dock in the United States. [3]
The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a shop, trolley barn and offices located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, on the historic Beard Street Piers (c. 1870).
It is currently docked and operated as a museum at the foot of Conover Street in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood where it provides a range of educational and entertainment programming. [2] [3] It was also the location for the US premiere of Arthur Miller's The Hook. [4]
Red Hook, Brooklyn, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, United States; Red Hook graving dock, a graving dock formerly located in Red Hook, Brooklyn; Red Hook, New York, a town in Dutchess County in the State of New York, United States; Red Hook (village), New York, a village in the Town of Red Hook, New York, United States