Red Hook, Brooklyn

Red Hook
Neighborhood of Brooklyn
NYCHA Housing Development

Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40°40′37″N 74°00′40″W / 40.677°N 74.011°W / 40.677; -74.011Coordinates: 40°40′37″N 74°00′40″W / 40.677°N 74.011°W / 40.677; -74.011
Country  United States
State  New York
City New York City
Borough Brooklyn
Settled 1836
Founded by Dutch colonists
Named for red clay on the point of a nearby island in the Upper New York Bay
ZIP Codes 11231
Area codes 718, 347, 929, and 917

Red Hook is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, New York. It is located on a peninsula projecting into the Upper New York Harbor. A prosperous shipping and port area in the early 20th century, the area declined in the latter part of the century. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 6.

History

Colonization

Holland-style factory building in Red Hook.
PS 15.

Red Hook has been part of the Town of Brooklyn since it was organized in the 1600s.[1] It is named for the red clay soil and the point of land projecting into the Upper New York Bay. The village was settled by Dutch colonists of New Amsterdam in 1636, and named Roode Hoek. In Dutch, "Hoek" means "point" or "corner," and not the English hook (i.e., something curved or bent).[2] The actual "hoek" of Red Hook was a point on an island that stuck out into Upper New York Bay at today's Dikeman Street west of Ferris Street. From the 1880s to the present time, people who live in the eastern area of Red Hook have referred to their neighborhood as "The Point". Today, the area is home to about 11,000 people.

Rapelye Street in Red Hook commemorates the beginnings of one of New Amsterdam's earliest families, the Rapelje clan, descended from the first European child born in the new Dutch settlement in the New World, Sarah Rapelje. She was born near Wallabout Bay, which later became the site of the New York (Brooklyn) Naval Shipyard.[1][3] A couple of decades after the birth of his daughter Sarah, Joris Jansen Rapelje removed to Brooklyn, where he was one of the Council of twelve men, and where he was soon joined by son-in-law Hans Hansen Bergen. Rapelye Street in Red Hook is named for Rapelje and his descendants, who lived in Brooklyn for centuries.[4][5]

American Revolution

During the Battle of Brooklyn (also known as the Battle of Long Island), a fort was constructed on the "hoek" called "Fort Defiance". It is shown on a map called "a Map of the Environs of Brooklyn" drawn in 1780 by a loyalist engineer named George S. Sproule. The Sproule map shows that Fort Defiance complex actually consisted of three redoubts on a small island connected by trenches, with an earthwork on the island's south side to defend against a landing. The entire earthwork was about 1,600 feet long and covered the entire island. The three redoubts covered an area about 400 feet by 800 feet. The two principal earthworks were about 150 feet by 175 feet, and the tertiary one was about 75 feet by 100 feet. The Sproule and Ratzer maps show that Red Hook was a low-lying area full of tidal mill ponds created by the Dutch.

General Israel Putnam came to New York on April 4, 1776, to assess the state of its defenses and strengthen them.[6] Among the works initiated were forts on Governor's Island and Red Hook, facing the bay. On April 10, one thousand Continentals took possession of both points and began constructing Fort Defiance which mounted one three pounder cannon and four eighteen pounders. The cannons were to be fired over the tops of the fort's walls. In May, Washington described it as "small but exceedingly strong". On July 5, General Nathanael Greene called it "a post of vast importance" and, three days later, Col. Varnum's regiment joined its garrison. On July 12, the British frigates Rose and Phoenix and the schooner Tyrol ran the gauntlet past Defiance and the stronger Governor's Island works without firing a shot, and got all the way to Tappan Zee, the widest part of the Hudson River. They stayed there for over a month, beating off harassing attacks, and finally returned to Staten Island on August 18.[1] It appeared that gunfire from Fort Defiance did damage to the British ships.

Industrial area.

Samuel Shaw wrote to his parents on July 15:

Almost the entire New York metropolitan area was under British military occupation from the end of 1776 until November 23, 1783, when they evacuated the city.

Later years and recent history

Red Hook circa 1875.

In 1839, the City of Brooklyn published a plan to create streets, which included filling in all of the ponds and other low-lying areas.

In the 1840s, entrepreneurs began to build ports as the "offloading end" of the Erie Canal.[1] These included the Atlantic, Erie and Brooklyn Basins. By the 1920s, they made Red Hook the busiest freight port in the world, but this ended in the 1960s with the advent of containerization. In the 1930s, the area was poor, and the site of the current Red Hook Houses was the site of a shack city for the homeless, called a "Hooverville".

From the 1920s on, a lot of poor and unemployed Norwegians, mostly former sailors, were living in the area in what they called Ørkenen Sur ("The Bitter Desert") around places like Hamilton Avenue and Gospel Hill.[7] In 2015, NRK made a documentary about it in Norwegian.[8] There is also an old documentary film about this.[9]

In the 1990s Life magazine named Red Hook as one of the "worst" neighborhoods in the United States and as "the crack capital of America."[10] The principal of P.S. 15 in Red Hook was killed in 1992, in the crossfire of a drug-related shooting while looking for a pupil who had left his school. The school was later renamed the Patrick Daly School after that principal, who was beloved within that school.[11]

In 2010, Red Hook's first community newspaper, The Red Hook Star-Revue, began publication.

Hurricane Sandy 610 Smith St

In 2012, Red Hook was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy.[12]

The Mary A. Whalen and Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge No. 79 are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[13][14]

Location

IKEA ferry arrives at the Red Hook store.

Red Hook is a peninsula between Buttermilk Channel, Gowanus Bay and Gowanus Canal at the southern edge of Downtown Brooklyn. Red Hook is in the area known as South Brooklyn, which, contrary to its name, is actually in western Brooklyn. This name is derived from the original City of Brooklyn which ended at Atlantic Street, now Atlantic Avenue. By the 1950s, anything south of Atlantic Avenue was considered South Brooklyn; thus, the names "Red Hook" and "South Brooklyn" were applied also to today's Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Columbia Heights, and Gowanus neighborhoods. Portions of Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill were granted landmark status in the 1970s and were carved out of Red Hook.

Red Hook is the only part of New York City that has a fully frontal view of the Statue of Liberty, which was oriented to face France, the country which donated the statue to the United States following the country's centennial.

Red Hook is the site of the NYCHA Red Hook Houses, the largest public housing development in Brooklyn, which accommodates roughly 6,000 residents.[15] Red Hook also contains several parks.

IKEA

North side of the IKEA store before opening.

Red Hook has a large IKEA store (346,000 square feet (32,100 m2)) that opened on June 18, 2008, near the Gowanus Expressway.[16] The building of IKEA was controversial. Opponents cited concerns including traffic congestion, a decrease in property values and destruction of this transit-oriented neighborhood and historically significant buildings in the area.[17] Brooklyn artist Greg Lindquist exhibited a group of paintings in February 2008 in New York City that depicted the IKEA site in process, juxtaposing the maritime decay with the new construction.

As part of the IKEA development, a number of Civil War era buildings were demolished and the Red Hook graving dock, a 19th-century dry dock at 40°40′19.2″N 74°0′47.5″W / 40.672000°N 74.013194°W / 40.672000; -74.013194 (dry dock) still in use, was filled in and leveled for use as a parking lot.[18] A Maritime Support Services Location Study by the New York City Economic Development Corporation found that New York City needs eight more dry docks. According to the report, it would cost $1 billion to replace the one sold to IKEA. No schedule for replacement was announced.

In addition, IKEA's contractor was found to be in "violation for not having filed asbestos work, failing to monitor the air, not posting warnings, failure to construct decontamination protections before disturbing the asbestos-containing materials, and doing nothing to protect and decontaminate the material, as well as the workers and building waste."[19]

A once-free ferry service for shoppers from Manhattan proved more popular than expected.[20] IKEA charges a fare for the ferry but reimburses the fare at checkout with a minimum $10 purchase to deter would-be commuters from using the ferry for non-shopping purposes. The ferry, operated by New York Water Taxi, is still free on weekends.[21]

Park

Goldman Recreation Center.
Park on dry dock site, commemorating the ships serviced there.

A 58.503-acre (236,750 m2) public park is located in southern Red Hook. It contains a paved path, benches, a flagpole with a yardarm, a drinking fountain, handball courts, softball fields, a soccer and football field, a track and field, picnic tables, the adjacent Sol Goldman Pool, and new trees and plantings. The park is maintained and operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and is bordered by Otsego, Bay, Hicks, Lorraine, Court, and Halleck Streets.[22]

Transportation

Brooklyn–Battery (Hugh L. Carey) Tunnel toll plaza in Red Hook.

Water

New York City has expanded its water ferry service, operated by New York Water Taxi. This service normally runs between IKEA and Pier 11 in Lower Manhattan, but has added a new stop at Van Brunt Street to support local businesses hurt by Hurricane Sandy. The free ferry runs between 10am and 9pm.[23] Originally, when this free service was first introduced, it proved to be popular with local residents, causing changes in the operating policy to favor IKEA shoppers. Under the current schedule, the ferry runs from Monday to Friday, every 40 minutes from 2pm, $5 for one way. On Saturday and Sunday, it runs free of charge, every 20 minutes from 11am.[24]

Red Hook has been served by NYC Ferry's South Brooklyn route[25] since 2017.[26][27]

In the spring of 2006, the new Carnival Cruise Lines terminal, the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, opened at Pier 12 at Pioneer Street, bringing additional tourists.

The Red Hook Container Terminal is one of four such facilities in the Port of New York and New Jersey and is the only maritime facility in Brooklyn to handle container ships.[28][29]

The transatlantic liner RMS Queen Mary 2 docks in Red Hook.

Public transport

Smith–Ninth Streets station platform.

Subway service in the area is sparse. The closest subway stops are along the IND Culver Line (F and ​G trains), at either Carroll Street or Smith–Ninth Streets stations.

New York City Bus service is also sparse, but popular. The B61 bus route provides service from Hamilton Avenue, through Erie Basin/IKEA Plaza, to Van Brunt Street and then northward, through the Columbia Street Waterfront District and terminates in Downtown Brooklyn. It also connects with the Culver Line's Smith–Ninth Streets station. The B57 bus connects Red Hook with Downtown Brooklyn and Maspeth, Queens.

IKEA provides a complimentary shuttle that runs to Smith–Ninth Streets, Fourth Avenue / Ninth Street, and Court Street – Borough Hall subway stations from 3 to 9 p.m. daily, Monday through Friday every half hour, and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. every 20 minutes. Non-shoppers also use this service.[24]

Planned streetcars

Old, out-of-service streetcars behind a Fairway Market in Red Hook.

Although electric trolleys have not run in Brooklyn since 1956,[30] activists led by the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA) have been trying to revive streetcars in Red Hook since 1989.[31] With permission from New York City's government to develop a streetcar line running from Beard Street to Borough Hall, in the 1990s BHRA president Robert Diamond collected disused PCC streetcars that had been used in Boston and Buffalo for potential use on the new line.[30] By 1999, Diamond had begun laying new track for the project, but in 2003 transportation officials elected to revoke Diamond's rights to the route's right of way, instead intending to sell them to the highest bidder in the event that the project ever moved forward. Diamond's efforts to secure independent funding were not successful.[32]

In 2005, Rep. Nydia Velázquez helped obtain a $300,000 federal grant for a six-month streetcar study.[31] Although BHRA had estimated $10–$15 million would be required to complete the project, the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) streetcar feasibility study (completed in April 2011) concluded that the 6.8 mile line would cost $176 million in capital funding, plus an additional $6.2 to $7.2 million in annual operating funds. A significant portion of the capital cost would be required to make modifications to Red Hook's narrow streets in order to allow streetcars to make right turns.[33]

Despite finding that Red Hook was underserved by transit, the study concluded that due to a number of factors, a streetcar line would not be an appropriate transit solution for the neighborhood. Because 81.5 percent of Red Hook residents did not own a car and therefore were already dependent on transit, the study estimated that a streetcar would generate only 1,822 daily riders. The study also found that a streetcar would not be a significant upgrade over existing buses in terms of travel times and reliability, and would not likely spur significant economic development unless combined with zoning changes from the New York City Department of City Planning (DCP). Since DCP had designated Red Hook as a “working waterfront,” no such zoning changes appeared to be forthcoming.[33]

As of June 2013, Diamond had partnered with John Quadrozzi of Gowanus Bay Terminal (a concrete firm), and the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation in an effort to revive the project, which he now envisions running partly underground through a 19th-century Long Island Railroad tunnel. Diamond is pursuing federal funding in order to pay for the project, which he estimates would cost $50 million.[34]

Vehicular

The Red Hook portal of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.

Red Hook is connected to Manhattan by the vehicular Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, whose toll plaza and approaches separate it from Carroll Gardens and Columbia Street to the north.

The Gowanus Expressway (I-278) also runs through the neighborhood.

Events

The Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival[35] is an annual summer kick-off held in Louis J. Valentino, Jr. Park & Pier featuring dance, music, and spoken-word poetry. Dance Theatre Etcetera, the producers of the event, concentrate local resources for residents and bring in community partners with activities for the whole family.

Sunday's at Sunny's is a reading series held the first Sunday of every month, co-sponsored by Sunny's Bar and the independent bookstore BookCourt, and co-ordinated by writer Gabriel Cohen.

Red Hook Crit[36] is an annual, unsanctioned bicycle race held on a springtime night on track bikes. It began as an underground event but has grown to become "what is possibly the country's coolest bike race."[37]

The Brooklyn Street Circuit is located in Red Hook and hosts the annual New York City ePrix.[38]

Notable residents

  • Red Hook was the setting for the H. P. Lovecraft 1927 story "The Horror at Red Hook".[49]
  • In Thomas Wolfe's short story "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn", a character rides the subway at night and is warned by the narrator to not walk around in Red Hook. It is written in transliterated circa 1936 Brooklynese.
  • The 1954 film On the Waterfront is set in Red Hook, though it was filmed in Hoboken, New Jersey.
  • The area was used as the setting for Arthur Miller's 1955 play A View from the Bridge.[50]
  • Red Hook is the setting for the 1961 book Memos from Purgatory by Harlan Ellison.
  • Red Hook is the birthplace of gangster Joe Gallo, which was commemorated in Bob Dylan's song "Joey" from the album Desire.
  • In the 1988 film Spike of Bensonhurst, the protagonist moves from Bensonhurst to Red Hook after being chased out of his old neighborhood by the Mafia.[51]
  • Red Hook was the setting for the 1964 novel Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. and the 1989 film of the same name.[52]
  • Red Hook appears in Bill Murray's 1990 movie Quick Change as the neighborhood in which the robbers get lost and witness two men on bikes apparently having some sort of chivalric fight over honor with garden tools.
  • The 1991 independent and award-winning film Straight Out of Brooklyn is set in the Red Hook Housing Projects.
  • In the 1997 film Cop Land, after a white NYPD officer kills two African American motorists who he thought were firing on him, the other officers back him up referring to his past heroic action in Red Hook.
  • Red Hook figures prominently in Gabriel Cohen's 2001 crime novel Red Hook, nominated for the Edgar award for Best First Novel.
  • Red Hook is the setting of Reggie Nadelson's 2005 crime novel, also called Red Hook.
  • Red Hook is featured in Lil Kim's music video for the song "Lighters Up", which plays homage to Lil Kim's hometown of Brooklyn.
  • Pier 41 at 204 Van Dyke Street was used as the setting of a bar scene in the 2005 Will Smith film Hitch.[53]
  • A neighborhood based on Red Hook appears in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV, under the name "East Hook".
  • The 2008 independent documentary film A Hole in a Fence by D. W. Young chronicles the changing fortunes of Red Hook.
  • In Cassandra Clare's 2009 book City of Ashes, the main characters drive to this beach as a way to get to Valentine's ship.
  • The cast of The Real World: Brooklyn, part of MTV's reality television series The Real World, resided at Pier 41 in 2009.[53]
  • Red Hook is the first dance battle that takes place in the 2010 film Step Up 3D, in the lead up to the World Jam Competition.
  • The protagonist of the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau grew up in Red Hook.
  • It is mentioned in Red Hook Summer, a 2012 American film directed by Spike Lee.
  • Red Hook is the setting for Visitation Street, a 2013 novel by Ivy Pochoda.
  • Red Hook is the birthplace and sometimes current residence of Steve Rogers, also known as Captain America.
  • Professional wrestler Taz is said to be from the "Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York".
  • "The Red Hook" is the name of a cocktail created at Milk & Honey.[54]
  • Red Hook is featured prominently in the FX TV series The Strain.
  • Red Hook is the setting of the Type O Negative song "In Praise Of Bacchus" off of the album October Rust, as evidenced by the lyric, "The street lamps light a wet old Red Hook road". The song also references the Brooklyn Bridge and Pier 6.

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  2. ↑ "Red Hook History". Waterfront Museum. September 4, 2016. The Dutch established the village of Red Hook (Roode Hoek) in 1636. Red Hook was one of the earliest areas in Brooklyn to be settled. The area was named for its red clay soil and the hook shape of its peninsular corner of Brooklyn that projects into the East River.
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  28. ↑ "Press Release Archives #157: City Purchases New Container Cranes For Brooklyn's Red Hook Container Terminal". Mayor's Press Office. May 3, 2000. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
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  30. 1 2 Geberer, Raanan (November 22, 2013). "De Blasio gives Diamond hope for Red Hook trolley plan". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
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  33. 1 2 "Brooklyn Streetcar Feasibility Study Final Report" (PDF). New York City Department of Transportation. August 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
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  39. ↑ Taylor, Nate (November 26, 2012). "Excited for Return to Brooklyn, Anthony Gets the Ending Wrong". The New York Times. Retrieved September 4, 2016. On Monday, two miles from where he grew up in the apartments known as the Red Hook Houses, Anthony was on the floor of the new Barclays Center, still dribbling, and scoring, as he tried to lead the Knicks over the Nets in the official christening of their New York-Brooklyn rivalry.
  40. ↑ McShane, Larry (March 31, 2012). "Tribute for dead mobster, Crazy Joe Gallo". New York Daily News. Retrieved September 4, 2016. Bob Dylan immortalized Gallo in his 1975 song 'Joey,' offering a version of the Umberto killing where the doomed mobster 'pushed the table over to protect his family/Then he staggered out into the streets of Little Italy.' Nash says Gallo's reputation as the Robin Hood of Red Hook isn't quite accurate.
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  42. ↑ Weichselbaum, Simone (August 13, 2012). "'Red Hook Summer' writer James McBride wants America 'shaken awake' to life in public housing". Daily News. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
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  44. ↑ Kaufman, Joanne (June 20, 2014). "Michael Shannon Finds Balance on the Waterfront; Michael Shannon's Red Hook, Brooklyn, Loft Rental". The New York Times. Retrieved June 5, 2017. For the last four and a half years, the couple have lived on the waterfront in Red Hook, Brooklyn, above a Fairway Market and above the fray with their 6-year-old, Sylvie.
  45. ↑ Fortunato, John (May 11, 2010). "Lost Interview with Peter Steele of Type O Negative, Circa October Rust". The Aquarian Weekly. Retrieved June 5, 2017. A well-schooled, well-mannered giant of a man, Steele's imposing frame hid the fact he was a sensitive individual with a waveringly thick Brooklyn accent. Born in the Red Hook section of Kings County, the heavily-pierced body builder seemed to be straightening his life out before dying of heart failure, April 14, 2010.
  46. ↑ Berkvist, Robert (June 25, 2014). "Eli Wallach, Multifaceted Actor on Stage and Screen, Dies at 98". The New York Times. Retrieved September 4, 2016. Eli Wallach was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on Dec. 7, 1915, the son of Abraham Wallach, who owned a candy store in the neighborhood, and the former Bertha Schorr.
  47. ↑ Kussin, Zachary (July 15, 2016). "Share a street with Michelle Williams for $3 million". New York Post. Retrieved June 5, 2017. In 2012, she headed to far-flung Red Hook, where she shacked up with then-beau Jason Segel above the Fairway food market.
  48. ↑ Colman, David (October 11, 2009). "A Red Hook Tale of Domesticity; Was: Large industrial complex used mostly for storage. v Is: Live-work haven for two artists, even when it's not heaven exactly". New York. Retrieved June 5, 2017. Scarcely had the artists Dustin Yellin and Charlotte Kidd moved to Red Hook three years ago when they fell so in love with the hood that they started looking for something big, for a way to build a mixed-use bohemian dream house—with studios, gallery, and plenty of flexible living space.
  49. ↑ Emrys, Ruthanna; Pillsworth, Anne M. (March 3, 2015). "Lovecraft's Most Bigoted Story, No Really: 'The Horror at Red Hook'". Tor.com. Retrieved September 4, 2016. Dublin-born Thomas Malone is a writer playing at detective work in New York when a nasty case in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook earns him a rest cure in bucolic Pascoag, Rhode Island.
  50. ↑ "On This Day in History, February 10: Death of a Playwright". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Retrieved September 4, 2016. Miller's experience in Red Hook gave him the background for A View From the Bridge and the young lawyer furnished part of the characterization of Alfieri.
  51. ↑ Yagoda, Ben (December 9, 1988). "Shades of 'Moonstruck'". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved September 4, 2016. Spike gets involved with the beleaguered local mob boss (a very appealing performance by Ernest Borgnine), gets the big guy's daughter (Maria Patillo) pregnant, gets banished from his home neighborhood of Bensonhurst, moves in with a Puerto Rican family in Red Hook, throws all the drug pushers out of that neighborhood, gets let back in his own neighborhood, messes up again, finally wins a fight, then suffers a final reversal.
  52. ↑ DePalma, Anthony (April 27, 2004). "Hubert Selby Jr. Dies at 75; Wrote 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'". The New York Times. Retrieved September 4, 2016. And when Last Exit, which consists of 'Tralala' and five other loosely connected stories, was published in England in 1966, a jury found it to be obscene and fined its publisher. The novel describes the seedy underbelly of the Red Hook waterfront neighborhood in the Brooklyn of the 1950's, which is depicted as a wasteland prowled by gangs, whores and transvestites.
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