Tag: Erie Basin

How Red Hook and the Buttermilk Channel Got Their Names

By Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose Morris) Our neighborhoods all have interesting place nam...

By Suzanne Spellen 08/26/2015 0

view of stretch of brick warehouses

Walkabout: Brooklyn and the Erie Canal, Part 2

Read Part 1 of this story. A large flotilla of boats, led by New York’s governor, DeWitt Clinton,...

By Suzanne Spellen 10/04/2012 2