by Lucie Levine 
Today at The Pencil Factory at 47-61 Greenpoint Avenue, you can get an amazing haircut, or see an exciting new art exhibit, or even stop by our very own Greenpointers office, but between 1924 and 1956, that building lived up to its name and turned out pencils for the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company, one of the largest pencil manufacturers…
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KRYSTYNA
Is there any information, such as names of people who worked in the Pencil factory. I think my Great Aunt, Rose Baris(Nee Sharp) may have worked there
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Gareth Barr
Scotland UK
Which led is softer the #2 or #3?