H.P. Lovecraft had an interesting take on Red Hook. In The Horror at Red Hook, he wrote, “Red Hook is a maze of hybrid squalor near the ancient waterfront opposite Governor’s Island, with dirty highways climbing the hill from the wharves to that higher ground where the decayed lengths of Clinton and Court Streets lead off toward the Borough Hall …”–McBrooklyn
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