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Frankie Yale

Brooklyn, New York

Site of 1928 gang shooting

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

Site of Joe Gallo's 1950s Headquarters

Brooklyn, New York

Site of Joe Gallo's 1950s Headquarters

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

Jalopy

Brooklyn, New York

Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

Red Hook Firehouse

Brooklyn, New York

Van Brunt St Fire House (H & L Engine Co 101, Engine 202)

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

New York Dock Co

Brooklyn, New York

New York Dock Co. buildings

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

The Red Hook Community Justice Center

Brooklyn, New York

The Red Hook Community Justice Center

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

During construction, circa 1912

Brooklyn, New York

Red Hook Warehouse

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

The door on a ship is called a port.

Brooklyn, New York

Mary A. Whalen Oil Tanker

A retired oil tanker now offering amazing views of New York City.

The entrance to the pier.

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

Pioneer Works

Brooklyn, New York

Pioneer Works

An unconventional space for art and science housed in a massive old warehouse.

Reanimation Library.

Brooklyn, New York

Reanimation Library

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Mafia Executioner Albert Anastasia's 1920s Home

Brooklyn, New York

Mafia Executioner Albert Anastasia's 1920s Home

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

Red Hook Houses

Brooklyn, New York

Red Hook Houses

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

P.S. 15, Patrick F. Daly School

Brooklyn, New York

P.S. 15, Patrick F. Daly School

School named after its beloved principal, killed in the cross-fire of a drug related shooting.

12 Dead From Bad Moonshine

Brooklyn, New York

12 Dead From Bad Moonshine

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company

Brooklyn, New York

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

Cacao Prieto's Red Hook factory
Permanently Closed

Brooklyn, New York

Cacao Prieto

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

The Brooklyn Old Trolley Cars on the Beard Street Pier. (Wikimedia Commons)
Permanently Closed

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Old Trolley Cars

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.

Van Brunt Street

Brooklyn, New York

The Red Hook Stores

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Fort Defiance

Brooklyn, New York

Fort Defiance

The humble fort that saved Washington.

Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Bricks Works Storehouse

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Bricks Works Storehouse

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

Harvesting produce.

Brooklyn, New York

Red Hook Community Farm

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

The Red Hook Graving Dock

Brooklyn, New York

Red Hook Graving Docks

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

Erie Basin

Brooklyn, New York

Erie Basin

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

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