Photos: Here's What Red Hook Looked Like From 1952-1961
14 photos
1959: "47 Centre Street, Red Hook. North side of street between Clinton and Court Streets."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1951: "Headless effigy propped up on table behind candles and sign reading, 'Dressen No Head;' onlookers peering in from outside storefront window of Bud and Packy's Bar, 199 Richards St., decapitated dummy illustrates one view of Dodger manager's ninth-inning strategy in choosing Ralph Branca as relief pitcher who tossed the ball that Bobby Thomson hit for the home run that lost the 1951 pennant."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1953: "Cocktail party balked. Detective Michael Walsh of Brooklyn West Youth Squad examines homemade 'Molotov cocktails'âgasoline-filled bottles with gas-saturated wicksâwhich were among 20 seized yesterday by police who broke up scheduled teenage gang war in Red Hook."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1961: "Red Hook Play Center on Bay Street between Clinton Street and Henry Street."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1959: "Northeast corner of Van Brunt Street (left) and Van Dyke Street."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1961: "Red Hook Mission, on Hicks Street, at s.w. corner of Hicks Street and Luquer Street."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1959: "View of east side of Richards Street between Dikeman Street and Coffey Street."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1959: "H. & L. Co. 101âEngine 202, Van Brunt Street at corner of Seabring Street."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1959: "49 Hamilton Avenue (left) and 51 Hamilton Avenue."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1954: "The five winners of the beauty contest [all holding tropies] of the New York City Community College annual field day held at Red Hook Stadium, Bay and Hicks Sts., are, in order of judges' decisions, right to left, Elaine Peppe, 1901 84th St., First; Adelaide Fornaro, 356 St. Marks Ave., second; Catherine Law, 1368 E. 16th St., third; Cecelia Aird, 317 W. 114th St. Manhattan, fourth, and Maxine Werbowsky, 911 Walton Ave., Bronx, fifth. Miss Peppe was declared 'Queen of Community College'."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1959: "View of north side of Coffey Street looking east toward Richards Street."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1961: "North side of Luqueer [sic] Street between Hicks Street and Columbia Street."
Brooklyn Visual Heritage1961: "Southwest corner of Court Street and Hamilton Avenue."
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