by Geoff Cobb 
One of the most atmospheric bars in Greenpoint is the quaint cocktail club Grand Republic (19 Greenpoint Ave.), and it’s a great place to enjoy a cocktail amongst nautically themed décor. Owner Johnny Swet must know a thing or two about local history because he named his bar after a famous ship, built only a few feet away from the bar in the John Englis Shipyard,…
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The picture in the banner (and above the bar) are of the wrong Grand Republic. The one pictured was a Mississippi River steamer doing excursions out of St. Louis.
If you want to get a free drink in The Grand Republic bar at the foot of Greenpoint Ave., sign up for rental tour of the new lux. rental tower at the foot of Franklin St. now in operation. The two have a promotional agreement.
The lux rental tower is called Blue Slip or something. I call it the Gold Coast, beautiful public views on a promenade of all of Manhattan and LIC.