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Posts by Author Archives: Geoff Cobb

Geoffrey Cobb is a Brooklyn high school history teacher and writer of the blog historicgreenpoint.wordpress.com. He has lived in Greenpoint for over 20years and is the author of a book on the history of the area, "Greenpoint Brooklyn's Forgotten Past."

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How McGuinness Boulevard Was Created

by Geoff CobbApril 29, 2019

  Maybe it is just me, but I find McGuinness Boulevard ugly. Huge trucks and streams of traffic wiz by the four-laned, soulless traffic artery. The newer apartment buildings lack […]

Posted inHistorical Greenpoint

Williamsburg Roots of David Smith, Who Made First Welded Sculptures

by Geoff CobbApril 26, 2019April 26, 2019

For a working-class industrial area, North Brooklyn has played an outsized influence on American sculpture. The great Western artist Fredrick Remington cast many of his iconic western sculptures at the […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

‘Smiling’ Mickey Welch: The Hall of Fame Baseball Pitcher from Williamsburg

by Geoff CobbApril 24, 2019

Tens of thousands of men have played professional baseball, but only a few have been enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. One of those rare individuals is pitcher […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

The First Professional Baseball Player Began in Williamsburg

by Geoff CobbApril 16, 2019

Today Al Reach is largely a forgotten figure here in North Brooklyn where he began his baseball career, But Reach not only became the first openly professional baseball player in […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

Groundbreaking Williamsburg Female Physician: Mary Crawford

by Geoff CobbApril 10, 2019April 10, 2019

Today female physicians are the norm, but in 1908 when Mary Crawford became Brooklyn’s first female ambulance surgeon at Williamsburg Hospital people were shocked and her male colleagues were outraged. […]

Posted inHistorical Greenpoint

A Short History of the Greenpoint Park With Two Names

by Geoff CobbApril 4, 2019April 4, 2019

Some call it McGolrick Park, while many born and bred locals call it Winthrop Park. So what are you supposed to call it and why does the park have two […]

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The Local Purple Heart Recipient Memorialized With a Park

by Geoff CobbMarch 21, 2019March 21, 2019

Recently there was a $ 12,000,000 renovation of Sergeant William Dougherty Park, which lies right by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway at the corner of Vandervoort Avenue and Anthony Street. Sergeant […]

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Legendary Writer Henry Miller Recalls Williamsburg of The 1890s

by Geoff CobbMarch 18, 2019

Henry Miller is not only one of the greatest writers Brooklyn ever produced, but also a chronicler of the now vanished North Brooklyn before the building of the Williamsburg Bridge […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

A Greenpoint Irish Primer for St. Patrick’s Day

by Geoff CobbMarch 15, 2019

Most people associate Greenpoint with the Polish community, but our area has a long and deep connection to Ireland. Let’s answer a few questions to prepare you fully to celebrate […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

The Irish Revolutionary and First Female Mayor of Dublin Who Lived in Greenpoint

by Geoff CobbMarch 13, 2019March 13, 2019

It’s both Women’s History Month and the week before St. Patrick’s Day so it is totally fitting that we honor the most famous Irish woman who ever lived in Greenpoint- […]

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