A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

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

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

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

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

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

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

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

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

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

Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.