Here’s a clip featuring Red Hook and other Brooklyn neighborhoods including what is now called Dumbo and Sunset Park, circa 1989, that was just posted to the YouTube. It appears to have been uploaded by the proprietor of the blog Hunter-Gatherer. There are several vids and they deal with the making of the film Last Exit to Brooklyn. They are today’s “must see” vids.
Cool Vid: Red Hook, 1989
July 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Red Hook
4 responses so far ↓
1 Mitch Golden // Jul 2, 2008 at 12:10 am
About half of that is video of Dumbo and the docks just south of the Promenade, not Red Hook.
2 jerry // Jul 2, 2008 at 12:47 am
yea and all the NIMBYs of that day wanted it to stay that way I’m sure.
3 K.C. Bailey // Jul 2, 2008 at 8:18 am
Funny, I was the still photographer on that film, and Red Hook was an amazing and a little scary place to be making a film for 8 weeks of nights. The big scene where the trucks get blown up was filmed in DUMBO…long before it had the name. Ah….of things have changed.
4 squidward // Jul 2, 2008 at 11:27 pm
The last shot of the disused train is the Army Terminal Building. Also not Red Hook.