New York City is full of two things: Transplants and artists. Often, they (we), overlap, and many transplant-artists can be found in Greenpoint, practicing their craft in public (at least, pre-Covid) and engaging creatively in our North Brooklyn community.
Melissa Faliveno, whose first essay collection, Tomboyland, debuted on August 1, chatted with Greenpointers about her new book, living as a working artist in the neighborhood, and how working on edits to her manuscript made her…
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