who lived in red hook in the 1950s
Red Hook, Brooklyn From the 1920s on, a lot of poor and unemployed Norwegians, mostly former sailors, were living in the area in what they called Ã˜rkenen Sur ("The Bitter Desert") around places like Hamilton Avenue and Gospel Hill.[7] In 2015 NRK made a documentary about it in Norwegian.[8] There is also an old documentary film about this.[9]