by Julia Kott Julia Sipowicz misses Poland. The pandemic has meant the Polish national hasn’t been able to visit Poland and see family and friends. Instead, she has found herself frequenting Greenpoint. “I go there all the time to pick up tea and juice that I would get home. I’ve kind of found a temporary kind of solace there,” she says.
This spring, Sipowicz, a senior at NYU, will be independently filming a short film called Sour Times
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