by Geoff Cobb 
Recently I wrote a piece for Greenpointers about Bamonte’s Restaurant on Withers Street. A number of people reprimanded me and posted that the famous eatery was not in Greenpoint, but was really in Williamsburg. The argument over the location of the iconic Italian restaurant raises a larger,very controversial question: What is the exact borderline between Williamsburg and Greenpoint?
Ask ten people in North Brooklyn and you will…
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West of Mccarren Park, I’d place the border more along North 14th street than North 12th. I tend to think of places like Berry Park/The Gutter as being in Williamsburg, not Greenpoint.
I was born in Greenpoint and stayed there until I married. I always felt Greenpoint was up to McCarren Park.
I grew up on Monitor st. Near Richardson st across from St Cecelia school . I always assumed that Frost st was the border.
My family is from Greenpoint for generations both on the Italian and Slavic side. Yes, that was another description of neighborhoods. The Puerto Ricans and Irish were West of Greenpoint Avenue. LOL
Our family always considered the North numbered streets as “The Northside”, part of Williamsburg. Grand Avenue was the separating line between Grenepoint and Bushwick until Union and then that was Williamsburg.
It’s funny that Mae West was supposedly born on Herbert St. I had always heard she was born above Teddys on Berry.
Years ago there was Greenpoint, the Northside and the Southside. I believe all three were considered Williamsburg.
Ask the POST OFFICE. Check your ZIP CODE!
I love your articles… they make my week!
Ask Kenneth Jackson, editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City. Bordered on the south by North 7th Street. Anyone who tells you the park or the pool are in Williamsburg are real estate agents or assholes, or both.
This, a thousand times this.
I was born and raised in Greenpoint and my family still lives here as do I for over 50 years. There are many self-imposed borders and does the story states it is true that it depends on who you ask regarding which answer you receive. But I do believe that the right answer is one that I’ve heard most of my life and was actually on the maps at one point in time. Even though everyone considers the north side Williamsburg and anything across meeker Avenue for that matter, Williamsburg as well dot-dot. Williamsburg does not start until you cross metropolitan Avenue going towards the south side.there for metropolitan Avenue has always been the real border between Greenpoint and Williamsburg The way I know It.