A teenaged girl was “found dead” inside a Greenpoint home on Thursday, NBC NY reports. 16-year-old Skylar Darragh was found “unresponsive in the home on Leonard Street,” at around 3:15 […]
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Greenpointers is a hyperlocal blog about Greenpoint, Brooklyn covering Ash to Apollo and everything in between.
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$26,000 SUV Purchase by Community Board Raises Questions
Brooklyn Community Board 1 (CB1) purchased a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid SUV at the cost of $26,000 with funds intended to help NYC community boards. CB1 “was the only one of […]
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Brooklyn Public Library Celebrates Walt Whitmans’ 200th Birthday
Celebrations at the Brooklyn Public Library are underway marking the legendary writer, journalist, and poet Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday. Whitman was born on 5/21/1819 and worked as a journalist for […]
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Against The Grain, Paper Marbling, What The L? — What’s Happening, Greenpoint? (5/22-5/28)
WEDNESDAY 5/22 *Wine Glass Terrarium Plant Nite @ Clinton Hall (247 Metropolitan Ave), 7pm, $55, Cultivate your creativity, naturally. Gifted growers will guide you step-by-step as you make a mini […]
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Ad Hoc Closing Greenpoint Shop at the End of May
Ad Hoc NYC clothing store will close their brick and mortar location at 10 Bedford Ave. in Greenpoint at the end of the month, while the owners “bum around the […]
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Councilmembers Call for Full Funding of Hate Crimes Prevention Office
More funding is needed for the newly created Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, a group of NYC lawmakers announced yesterday at a press conference on Monday in Williamsburg. […]
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Reserve Your Free Rain Barrel for Pickup in McCarren Park 6/1
Free rain barrels will be distributed in McCarren Park on Saturday, June 1st from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. compliments of the NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection and Councilman Stephen […]
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Immersive “Urban Imprint” Installation Opens at A/D/O Today
A new installation from artist Nassia Inglessis of Studio INI opens today at A/D/O (29 Norman Ave). The “immersive, kinetic,” outdoor installation entitled “Urban Imprint” opens today (5/17) and will run through […]
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Update: Rubbished Removed From 996 Manhattan Avenue
After multiple Huron Street residents contacted Greenpointers with their complaints regarding the rubbish surrounding 996 Manhattan Avenue earlier this week, we posted pictures of the site and shared their […]
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Help Design the Future Kosciuszko Bridge Park
A visioning workshop that is open to the public to help plan the future park and green space under and around the new Kosciuszko Bridge will take place next week. […]