This week is the official reopening of New York City. There will be plenty of events happening over the weekend, not only to ring in Independence Day, but also to celebrate us emerging from this pandemic. 

You made it and here is how you can celebrate in Greenpoint!

Photo Credit: Headrush Barbershop

On July 3rd, Headrush Barbershop (933 Manhattan Avenue) invites you to their Summer Coolout. Happening from 12 – 5 PM, you will…

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  1. GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN
    NEW YORK

    NOSTALGIA

    I was born in 1941 so I remember World War II. So many people were coming over from Europe through Ellis Island in New York..

    There were many apartment buildings. Polish and Slovak families did settle in Greenpoint!! Every family that were settled already would get together and obtain a job for the new man of the family; as there were all kinds of jobs after the war.

    The women would help locate an apartment and they had other women come and bring a piece of furniture to get the new family started.

    So many Catholic Churches in Brooklyn, so everyone went to Church on Sunday. After Church families would visit each other and they would have the best of their Country’s food laid out.

    There were jobs for the women at many sewing plants that made clothes for the Garment District in New York. There also was a Chicklet Gum Factory close by that the women worked at. So after the children were out of school in the afternoon the women that stayed home watched them play outside on the Stoops.

  2. The headrush party was fabulous. Thanks to all involved in it and to Greenpointers for letting us know about it.

    Sometimes these parties are duds but this one was really good.

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