by Erin Conlon 
Before Greenpoint became a mecca for Polish and Eastern European culture and community, it was mostly….farmland. And on February 10, 1936, the neighborhood mourned the loss of a beloved figure and Greenpoint’s oldest resident, Mary Logan.
Affectionately dubbed “Grandma Logan” around town, the Ireland-born Mary moved into Greenpoint in 1859. At the time, it was primarily a farming town with very little of the concrete jungle aspects that have become synonymous with city living today.…
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