This painting on view at the Old Stone House is an aerial view of Red Hook’s industrial low-rise buildings which are some of the oldest in Brooklyn. The painting depicts Red Hook, a symbol of the urban industry and waterfront that helped Brooklyn develop. Red Hook is not far from the Old Stone House, a building with a long history that includes the home to the Brooklyn Dodgers club house and that was later transformed by Robert Moses into a public park facility.

Brooklyn-Made is a reference to the buy and eat local movement that has inundated almost everyone’s life in the past ten years. Brooklyn-Made is also a reference to the branding movement, where Brooklyn has become an icon and marketed through hip-hop, beer, and clothing to represent urban-hip. Brooklyn’s urban-ness grew out of its working class past and without a sustainable working class in the future the people who have made Brooklyn what it is today will no longer be able to call it home.

- Michael Sherman