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Recent Posts
- Red Hook’s Lidgerwood Complex and the Importance of Our Industrial History
- Red Hook’s Visitation Church — 165 Years of Neighborhood Service
- The Story of Revere Sugar in Red Hook and the Rise and Fall of Big Sugar in Brooklyn
- A Look Back at Tin City, Red Hook’s Homeless Settlement During the Great Depression
- The Red Hook Houses: Housing Brooklynites During the Great Depression
Yearly Archives: 2018
The Story of Revere Sugar in Red Hook and the Rise and Fall of Big Sugar in Brooklyn
By Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose Morris) Sugar was once one of Brooklyn’s biggest industries, and the Revere Sugar plant dominated the Red Hook waterfront for almost 100 years. New York City was once the sugar capital of the world. The ports and piers of New York, specifically those in Brooklyn, made this kingdom of …
+ read moreA Look Back at Tin City, Red Hook’s Homeless Settlement During the Great Depression
By Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose Morris) The Great Depression was one of the 20th century’s most defining periods. We tend to think it started with the international stock market crash on October 29, 1929, but the industrialized world’s economies were headed for trouble several years before that. By the early 1930s, the effects were …
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