Red Hook: Answer to the Saltbox

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Another type of house typical to the neighborhood: the cedar shingle clapboard or what I like to think of as Red Hook’s answer to the Saltbox. Much like City Island in the Bronx, there are places in Red Hook that make you feel as if you’re in some strangely urban version of Martha’s Vineyard and the sound of distant buoys clanging in the night only compounds that effect.

By Brownstoner |