by Geoff Cobb 
With Mayor de Blasio’s announcement of an imminent light rail line along the East River, history could be preparing to repeat itself.
For many years, Greenpoint had only two mass transit options: the ferry and the trolley. Both could soon play a huge role in local mass transit, so let’s recall the history of the Greenpoint Trolley.
The first horse-drawn trolley line in Greenpoint dates back to before the Civil War, in the 1850s. Eventually,…
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