by Emma Davey 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 landlordmoved to terminate the leases…
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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.