Good evening, Greenpointers
One more week until Halloween—do you have your plans firmed up yet?
We’ve got options for kids and families, as well as the young at heart. Even if you’re not celebrating, there’s still plenty to do this week in Greenpoint and Williamsburg.
Of course, nothing is scarier than the threat of several beloved businesses being pushed out by corporate greed. A notorious West Street landlord moved to terminate the leases of several waterfront businesses.
Apartment listings for the former Park Church Co-op building were published and promptly taken down, but not before we could get some screenshots. If you hated the changes to the building’s exterior, you won’t be surprised by what the interior looks like.
Perhaps the polar opposite of the Park Church renovation is Store Called Store, a colorful fusion of art and retail from local resident Kelly Adelia.
Several locals have recently been hard at work on new art projects. Gallery ATARAH opened in Williamsburg, and artist Thomas Tomczak debuted his new collection of images and interviews, This Isn’t Heaven.
Little Grand is serving up bistro fare in Williamsburg. Play Lab announced it will close as of today—get the details here.
In and around North Brooklyn
It might not actually be over for Brooklyn Mirage.
CBS covered the debate about the proposed Greenpoint school near a Superfund.
Take some design inspo from this kooky Williamsburg apartment.
Re the superfund site, I am on the fence. I know older people who died from cancer etc. but I also know plenty of Greenpointers who lived to a ripe old age. One can make the argument that many of them died from eating too much yummy good polish lard and kielbasa than the chemical plant.
My senior friends told me when they were kids here, they would play with the fluffy residue coming out of the chimney from the plant and falling to the ground and they are still living.
The other question I have is yes, that area has no school but relatively speaking Greenpoint has no kids. They have gone the way of the dodo bird and Whig Party, extinct.
So I don’t understand why they don’t close one of the three school on Driggs and Meserole and Mcg. The latter is the oldest in NYC and built circa 1867 and purported to have housed wounded Civil War soldiers.