The Women Who Tended Greenpoint: A Walking Tour with Geoffrey Cobb

I’m standing in a crowd of 25 people surrounding 118 Milton Street, with our guide who is wearing a “I speak Polish, what is your superpower?” tote bag. He tells us this is the childhood home of Margaret Wise Brown, the woman who wrote Goodnight, Moon.It’s a brick building, with some siding, reminding me of the Greenpoint I knew, whose residents were families that had been in the neighborhood for generations. Having grown up…