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Pete Panto, who helped inspire “On the Waterfront,” finally has a tombstone in a Long Island cemetery

The story of the disappearance and death of Brooklyn longshoreman and labor advocate Pete Panto in 1939 caught the eye of Brooklyn's Arthur Miller, who around 1950 wrote a screenplay in tribute to the working class whistleblower, called "The Hook." Seventy years later, it hits the stage at The Waterfront Museum in Red Hook.

An adaptation of Miller’s 1950 screenplay about a Red Hook longshoreman’s killing gets its first American staging aboard the Waterfront Museum.

“The Hook” was inspired by the story of Pete Panto, pictured in the projection, a Red Hook longshoreman who ran afoul of corrupt union bosses in the early…

A union leader on the Brooklyn docks disappeared 81 years ago, presumably murdered by the mob.