What’s the oddest thing you’ve seen in Brooklyn lately? For me, it’s the German soldier in the basement. He’s wearing a helmet with a spike on top of it, which suggests he fought in World War I. He’s a drawing scratched into the cement floor in the basement of 204 Van Dyke St. in Red […]
The city Buildings Department might slap the landlord of a historic Red Hook building with a criminal court summons for ignoring its directives. The agency “has issued several violations to the building owner already for failure to comply with a DOB-issued Stop Work Order,” DOB spokesperson Andrew Rudansky told the Brooklyn Eagle about the Chetrit […]
It’s a history nerds’ paradise. The rest of you will love it, too. We’re talking about Red Hook. Who knew warehouses could be so splendid? The ones you’ll find in this waterfront Brooklyn neighborhood are grand, red-brick edifices with arched doorways and wooden shutters on their windows. The warehouses were built around the time of […]