by Matt T 
We know eastern Greenpoint is readying for construction of a new Kosciuszko Bridge, replacing the decrepitly old (and ugly) monster of a structure that currently connects Brooklyn and Queens (and that this will require a collective holding of everyone’s breath). We also know that our State’s forward-thinking Department of Transportation is removing surrounding trees to prevent an endangered bat species from nesting(so that they’ll settle…
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You should take Mitch Waxman’s tour of the area: https://www.atlasobscura.com/events/poison-cauldron-spring-2014
I’m a Greenpoint native, and at least 90% of his material was new to me.