Red Hook, Brooklyn

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Red Hook Brooklyn

Maggie and Tom's ancestors in Red Hook, Brooklyn

  • Maggie's great grandparents, Johann and Sophie Petermann, and their family lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn
  • Toms' ancestors the Kettlers and Peters lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Today Red Hook is a section of Brooklyn that lies inland from the New York Harbor just south of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Before the Gowanus Expressway was build in the 1950s Red Hook also included the neighborhood now known as Carroll Gardens.

For more information on Red Hook go to Water Front Museum and Showboat Barge


206 Richard Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, 2003

Maria Kettler, the daughter of Fritz Kettler and Hannah Peters was born at this address in 1886

Photo Maggie Blanck


189 Conover Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, 2003

Christian Petermann, the son of Johann Petermann and Sophia Steuer, was born at this address in 1883

Photo Maggie Blanck


Erie Basin and Gowanus Canal

Brooklyn Eagle Post Card, Series 72, No 428

The Erie Basin is on the south side of Red Hook

Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck


"Free Floating Baths, Foot of Conover Street"

Brooklyn Eagle Post Card, Series 38, No. 224

Red Hook

Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck


Collection of Maggie Land Blanck

1907 map showing the Red Hook Section of Brooklyn

Key:

  1. The Atlantic Docks
  2. The area where the Kettlers and Petermanns lived
  3. The Brooklyn Bridge
  4. Where I live now

Collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Early map showing the Red Hook Section of Brooklyn

Key:

  1. Ferris Street, Gertrude Kettler was born at 87 Ferris Street in 1889
  2. Conover Street, Christian Petermann was born at 189 Conover Street in 1883
  3. Richards Street, Maria Kettler was born at 206 Richards Street in 1886
  4. Where I live now in Carroll Gardens

Collection of Maggie Land Blanck

Early map showing the Red Hook Section of Brooklyn with Hamilton Avenue, and the Erie and Atlantic basins.


Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights and the Brooklyn Bridge

Manhattan Entrance to Brooklyn Bridge, New York
Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck


Brooklyn Bridge, New York
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Approach to Brooklyn Bridge, N. Y.

Postmarked 1910

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Brooklyn Bridge, New York

Postmarked 1909

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Brooklyn Bridge New York

Postmarked 1906

Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck


Brooklyn Bridge, New York

No postmark

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Bird's Eye view of Brooklyn and City Hall

No date

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Borough Hall Station

Picture of first train run through tube which is 90 feet under bed of East River

No date

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Clinton Street, 1874

Clinton Street runs between Brooklyn Heights and Red Hook


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Brooklyn Heights with Harbor in background, 1874


Other Areas of Brooklyn


Wallabout Market, Brooklyn, N. Y.

No date

The Wallabout Market was near the Brooklyn Navy Yards

Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck


Print collection of Maggie Land Blanck

New York Bay, from GreenWood Cemetery, 1874


If you have any suggestions, corrections, information, copies of documents, or photos that you would like to share with this page, please contact me at maggie@maggieblanck.com

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