by Aaron Simon 
Two weeks ago at their annual fundraiser, the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance (formerly Open Space Alliance) announced that Amazon Fashion donated $100,000 to the organization focused on bringing more recreational greenspace to the neighborhood.
Now, in a bid to lure Amazon HQ2 to the industrial shores of the East River, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has offered to rename Newtown Creek to Amazon Creek, and is throwing in hundreds of millions of…
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Absolutely not!! Even Amazon Creek nauseated me!! Leave Greenpoint alone! It has a history. All those Polish and Russians the took refuge there. My family being one.
Yes, Greenpoint has changed with the times. Skyscrapers now for the landscape. As a young girl I knew Greenpoint would grow. We had a hell of a view of Manhattan. You wouldn’t rename the East river now, Would you?
Vomit