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- Red Hook’s Visitation Church — 165 Years of Neighborhood Service
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- The Red Hook Houses: Housing Brooklynites During the Great Depression
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Making a Splash in Red Hook: How the Vast Red Hook Pool and Play Center Came to Be
By Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose Morris) We have the Great Depression and Robert Moses to thank for one of New York City’s biggest public swimming pools, the Sol Goldman Pool in the Red Hook Play Center at 155 Bay Street in Red Hook. Designed to accommodate more than 4,462 people at a time, the …
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