RED HOOK TIMELINE

This fellowship program provides to allow youth from the community to work with NYPD staff to learn about communication in various media (graphics, speeches, video, social media, written materials).

Red Hook Iniatives  RHI’s Red Hook WIFI is a community wireless broadband network that provides Internet access free to users within the community. From January through June 2016, Red Hook WIFI was accessed more than 15,624 times by over 3000 individual users.

PSA 1 became a neighborhood policing command in October 2016; the 76 Precinct in April 2017. #MyNYCStory is launched.  

BASIS Independent Brooklyn School opens in Red Hook, introducing a rigorous and revolutionary curriculum for children in grades K-12. The private school’s tuition is $30,200, but it offers two lucky children a scholarship each year if they live in Red Hook’s public housing. Photo:https://www.niche.com/k12/basis-independent-brooklyn-brooklyn-ny/

Red Hook, surrounded on three sides by water, was one of the most heavily flooded neighborhoods in the city. The community came together like never before. Photo: https://www.silive.com/news/2012/11/uja-federation_of_new_york_is.html  

Fairway’s fourth store opens in Red Hook, followed by New York’s first Ikea outlet two years later. While both businesses drew concerns of gentrification in Red Hook, they have provided significant numbers of jobs and visitors to the neighborhood.

The innovative community court handles civil, family, and criminal cases, offering a range of penalty options and services, including counselling, psychotherapy, and social services.

  Ciatation:Beloved Public School 15 Principal Patrick Daly is shot and killed as he searched for a missing student in the Red Hook Houses.  

LIFE magazine labeled the Red Hook Houses complex as the “crack capital of America.” Photo: https://www.psmag.com  

The Gowanus Expressway is opened, followed by the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel four years later. While these projects helped connect Brooklyn to other parts of New York City, they effectively cut Red Hook off from the rest of the borough. Photo: Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority  

The housing development is one of the first built in the city by the New York City Housing Authority, which was founded in 1932. The Red Hook Houses currently comprises 28 buildings and more than 6,000 residents, making it the largest public housing development in Brooklyn. Photo: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/gsc.5a03613/

Shipping became central to the economy of Red Hook in the 1840s and continued to dominate the neighborhood’s economy until the 1960s when the proliferation of shipping containers moved the bulk of the industry to larger, newer ports in New Jersey. Photo courtesy of wiredny.com

They named the area “Roode Hoek,” meaning “red point.” The name refers to the reddish color of the clay soil and the hook-shaped point that protruded out into the Upper New York Bay around what is now Dikeman Street west of Ferris Street.  Those who live in the eastern area of Red Hook have called that neighborhood “The Point” since the 1880s. Citation: http://redhookwaterfront.com/2015/10/heres-how-red-hooks-fort-defiance-changed-the-revolutionary-war/ Photo by George Bradford Brainerd via Brooklyn Public Library

The New York City Police Foundation has partnered with NYC Media Lab to develop a series of scenarios for virtual reality. These scenarios, geared towards Learning Labs across New York City, cover a wide range of youth-related issues, including bullying, policing, mental health, and social media.