Let's Talk Brooklyn: Red Hook

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  • Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
  • My family settled in Brooklyn in 1922. I spent every Sunday at my Grandmother's house in Red Hook. The same house my father and uncle grew up in. I couldn't wait to see my cousins for Sunday dinner, watching the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers on channel 11. Even the shows on TV were old, which made me feel connected to the generations before me.
    This is a quick story of how much Red Hook changed over the years.

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  • @ilovefreddie57
    @ilovefreddie57 5 років тому +5

    love Redhook , I've lived here for 17 years , grate neighborhood. good people

    • @yoshamell
      @yoshamell 2 місяці тому

      yea if you don't chill on da blocks!! lmaooo thas when it get real... but never those tht come & go..

  • @Aurora_Tom_Renton
    @Aurora_Tom_Renton 5 років тому +4

    Miss red hook so much

  • @martyjewell5683
    @martyjewell5683 5 років тому +5

    Nice video. My mom was born on Van Brunt Street in 1919. When I was born in 1949 we lived in Bush Terminal. Mom told many stories about the "old days" during the depression. Believe me they weren't good old days. Very nice to read some comments here. Brooklyn was a very different place in the 1950's/60's. Mom passed this past december, her generation is almost all gone.
    If you know any elderly folks, please talk to them and ask about what life was like in old Brooklyn. Ya might learn something.

  • @Mitzi73
    @Mitzi73 7 років тому +8

    My grandparents moved to Red Hook in 1955 and we still live on the same street. I remember the days before the artists. I grew up in Williamsburg but came to RH every weekend since the early 70's. Now live in Red Hook (in my grandparent's house).

    • @RaindoggTV
      @RaindoggTV  7 років тому +1

      Mitzi73 Awesome! I was there every Sunday through out the 70's as well. That's my grandmothers building I'm standing in front of during the bridge story.

  • @hollisterpatricia
    @hollisterpatricia 8 років тому +11

    Grew up on Dikeman St. a couple of blocks from the docks and warehouses until I was 10. I still dream of Red Hook sometimes. Visitation Church was important to me, Coffey Park also, friends who lived in the projects.

  • @chrisstyle7497
    @chrisstyle7497 3 роки тому +5

    Red hook 💯❤️💪🏽

  • @josephhoman3730
    @josephhoman3730 8 років тому +4

    My dad grew up in redhook.He moved to baltimore in 1976. He used to tell me storys.I would be so amazed by listening.

  • @johnbifone8829
    @johnbifone8829 5 років тому +7

    I'm currently 80 years of age..I was born on Clinton St and my father was a longshoreman and moved us to the Red Hook projects
    in 1941/42..we grew-up on west 9th street and went to PS 27 school. Nicks was and still is my favorite sandwich shop.
    I currently live in Louisville Ky and have family in Brooklyn/Queens and New Jersey. I still go to Nick's when I'm in New York.
    I really yearn for my favorite sandwich Of roast peppers/eggplant/provolone andprogtotene(spelling?)
    Finally, I lived until age 20 in Red Hook and attended Visitation catholic church.

    • @frankserra3952
      @frankserra3952 2 роки тому

      Wow you called Defontes Nick's, my grandmother (rip) used to call it that,she loved there sandwiches i would bring her sometimes but the heroes were so packed she would just eat half for lunch and the other half for dinner

  • @ryanm4769
    @ryanm4769 7 років тому +7

    8:02 My grandma (who is 92 now) grew up in that red house above Sunny's bar! Sunny is a family member of mine and my grandma and family used to own a share of the bar until it was sold to his wife...

  • @jlobe3159
    @jlobe3159 5 років тому +3

    Good content man. Quality film, quality interviews, interesting stories (anything about guns & gangs is pretty good in general). 5 stars.
    On a side note someone sponsor a work visa to the U.S.A for me please

  • @Coodeville
    @Coodeville 10 місяців тому

    I used to work in the projects there up until 2010. It was still "no mans land"

  • @albertberto5276
    @albertberto5276 Рік тому

    I remember Macho, he had long hair. His family owned a bodega on Court St.

  • @paulmcdonough1093
    @paulmcdonough1093 3 місяці тому

    i have been to red hook as a tourist from uk

  • @redhookbrooklyn1996
    @redhookbrooklyn1996 3 роки тому +3

    Red hook houses my town born and raised

  • @charlesredmond5958
    @charlesredmond5958 8 років тому +4

    Redmond Funeral Home, 103/105 King Street.

  • @braziliantvhd2768
    @braziliantvhd2768 7 років тому +3

    The Ballad of Black Tom brought me here

  • @kerbo43
    @kerbo43 8 років тому +1

    Nice work....

    • @RaindoggTV
      @RaindoggTV  8 років тому

      +Kevin Wellech Thanks for all your help Kevin!!

  • @SpitChaBarz
    @SpitChaBarz 8 років тому +6

    so ummmm, where are the actual people from red hook at in this film ??? don't get me wrong, it's a nice film but i think you could have found a few more people and stories to add to the Doc !... Thanks for sharing tho ! Holla at me to put a raw Documentary together !

    • @RaindoggTV
      @RaindoggTV  8 років тому +7

      My family lived in Red Hook from 1920 - 1988. My Aunt (Dorothy) knows all the stories, although the dates she actually lived there were short, she spent most of her life there caring for my Grandmother.
      Charlie was born and raised in RH. He tells that story.
      Gloria still lives there. She tells the story of someone moving in early on.
      Andrew was a wood worker, and tells the stories of the artist moving in.
      The idea was to do a 10 to 15 minute short about each neighborhood in Brooklyn. Covering all aspects and changes over the years. I was planning on making it a web series, like Comedian in Cars Getting Coffee, but about Brooklyn.
      Although an in depth doc about Red Hook would be very interesting. Are you a director, editor or producer?

  • @moriestaxks8593
    @moriestaxks8593 3 роки тому +1

    I live in red hook

  • @darnellstone7703
    @darnellstone7703 7 років тому +2

    11lorraine st poor block representative on deck RIP GLEN n TODD

  • @quejohnson77
    @quejohnson77 4 роки тому

    Hi Gloria!

  • @paddysmith461
    @paddysmith461 2 роки тому

    Was red book a Italian American neighbourhood ? Or is it still ?

    • @RaindoggTV
      @RaindoggTV  2 роки тому +2

      It used to be back in the early 1900’s. Then redlining happened, you can find documentaries about that. This was only meant to be a short video for UA-cam. I wanted to do other neighborhoods but my networking skills aren’t that great. This video is all friends and family.

    • @paddysmith461
      @paddysmith461 2 роки тому

      @@RaindoggTV oh ok I see do you still get italian American neighbourhoods in like parts of Brooklyn or the bronx or even queens. ?

    • @RaindoggTV
      @RaindoggTV  2 роки тому +1

      @@paddysmith461 Arthur Avenue in the Bronx is still Italian, as well as most of Statan Island. Some parts of Carroll Gardens are still like I remember it, but most of Brooklyn is filled with young hipsters. Lots has changed over the years, which is the point I was trying to make.

    • @paddysmith461
      @paddysmith461 2 роки тому +1

      @@RaindoggTV oh I see same as we’re I come form in London all the working class moving out the hipsters are moving in

  • @yoshamell
    @yoshamell 2 місяці тому

    who did ya interview? dis the ancient hook lol... ya got old school stories but this was made 8 yrs ago..you could have interviewed some current residents. some real RedHook ppl that been there 20+.... decent vid tho

    • @RaindoggTV
      @RaindoggTV  2 місяці тому +1

      @@yoshamell thanks, my family’s from there. I spent every Sunday there until my grandmother passes. Lots of great memories.

    • @yoshamell
      @yoshamell 2 місяці тому +1

      @@RaindoggTV ohh Godbless... i feel you... good vid bro...

  • @prospect4954
    @prospect4954 5 років тому

    Red Hook is run down meanwhile Bay Ridge is suited up and nice lol 😂