by Geoff Cobb 
I was recently looking at the Wikipedia entry on Greenpoint and it incorrectly lists two famous people as Greenpointers: the notorious bank robber Willie Sutton and the great twentieth century writer Henry Miller.
Willie Sutton, arguably the cleverest bank robber who ever lived, was indeed from Brooklyn, but he never lived a day in Greenpoint. While doing the research for my book Greenpoint’s Forgotten Past I…
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