by Lucie Levine 
Welcome to our final installment of “Do the Time Warp,” when we check in with life in Greenpoint 100 years ago. In our previous two sections, we visited Greenpoint circa 1919, and saw how the ‘nabe was one of the nation’s largest manufacturing centers, with a real estate market booming as fast as its factories.
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There are a few points that need to be mentioned in this article. First, very few Greenpointers commuted to Manhattan a hundred years ago. They walked to the huge number of factories right here in the area or they walked to the many jobs that were located in Williamsburg or in the Navy Yard. Those few people who did could avail themselves of the ferry. The transportation problem the article mentions is related to transporting raw materials and shipping out finished goods, not commuters.
The mayor was Hylan not Haylan.