A couple of decades after the birth of his daughter Sarah, Joris Jansen Rapelje removed to Brooklyn, where he was one of the Council of twelve men, and where he was soon joined by son-in-law Hans Hansen Bergen. She was born near Wallabout Bay, which later became the site of the New York (Brooklyn) Naval Shipyard. Rapelye Street in Red Hook commemorates the beginnings of one of New Amsterdam's earliest families, the Rapelje clan, descended from the first European child born in the new Dutch settlement in the New World, Sarah Rapelje. In 1657, Roode Hoek became part of the Town of Brooklyn. : 4 The actual hoek of Red Hook was a point on an island that stuck out into Upper New York Bay at today's Dikeman Street west of Ferris Street. In Dutch, Hoek means "point" or "corner," and not the English hook ( i.e., something curved or bent). The village was settled by Dutch colonists of New Amsterdam in 1636, and named Roode Hoek, after the red clay soil and the point of land projecting into the Upper New York Bay. The native Lenape referred to the region as Ihepetonga, meaning a high point of sandy soil. Holland-style factory building in Red Hook
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