Red Hook, Brooklyn

On this week’s show we will visit Red Hook, in Brooklyn. My guests will be returning tour guide, Jeremy Wilcox, Founder and Owner of Custom NYC Tours; and longtime Red Hook resident Susan Povich, co-founder and co-owner of Red Hook Lobster Pound. Tune in for this fascinating conversation at TalkRadio.nyc or watch the Facebook Livestream by clicking here. Show Notes Segment 1 Tonight on the show we have a returning guest Jeremy Wilcox. He’s a New York Native and the owner of custom NYC tours. His small walking tours focus on neighborhood history and architecture. as a New York Native he grew up In Richmond Hill. Now he lives in Flatbush. Jeremy was looking for a change of pace in his career and he just loved New York in the fact that you could get lost in it so he decided to start his own walking tours. Red Hook got its name during the colonial times they first called it Roadhock. The red came from the soil and the clay that was underneath the ground, and the hock came from the fact that it came out pointing to a New York Harbor. The Lenape people were the first to settle in Redhook. Name for the canal got the name for the Gowanus canal Comes from one of the Lenape Chiefs. RedHook was very crucial during the Civil War because of its location near the water. A Very famous battle ensued on the water during the Civil War where the boat was getting shot from Governors Island and Redhook at the same time. Segment 2 Jeremy, likes to focus on small personal walking tours Posed to the bigger tours he wants to create more of a person feeling for his tours. As an outdoor Central Park tours well as a He doesn’t Midtown architectural tour focusing on the art deco style. Does street art tours, and much more. If you wanna reach Jeremy you can go to www.customnyctours.com, and he also does customize tours. You can email him to him know what kind of tour you would like him to create Segment 3 Second guest is Susan Povich, Long time Redhook resident and business owner. She graduated from Harvard Law school in 1988 After a brief time in law school she left two Pursue another passion of The culinary arts. In 2009 she opened a restaurant Red Hook lobster Pound with her husband In 2009. She expanded with a mobile food truck. The food truck was anointed best food truck in the county in 2013. Susan spent a lot of time in Maine and her husband one day came up with the idea of opening a place where they would sell lobster rolls. That little idea I was able to take them on a journey they could’ve never imagined. She started selling lobster rolls at a market underneath a little tent. The recipe came from her childhood of growing up in Maine. She came up with her own style of lobster roll called the main style, Made with homemade mayonnaise. She also has the Connecticut style that is made with butter instead of mayonnaise. That’s what really put her on the map. Segment 4 RedHook is going under some serious construction as they’re taking the waterfront and building hundreds of warehouses. The worry is in the next five years Redhook is going to be consumed with trucks and the soil won’t hold up the infrastructure. After Hurricane Sandy a lot of focus was put on red Hook and they came back stronger as they opened restaurants and businesses. RedHook is like a little seasonal town. Which means you won’t make money six months out of the year but if you understand that you will be a successful business owner in Redhook.