Two new articles about gentrification and environmental activism in Greenpoint, appearing in The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, argue that the neighborhood is challenging the typical narrative that gentrifying neighborhoods […]
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Greenpoint and the Sequester: Chat With State Comptroller DiNapoli
We’ve all heard of the Sequester, the terribly and amazingly large amount of money the U.S. government is currently slashing from the budget, what President Obama has referred to as […]
Greenpoint Is On Top! Most Complaints Reported For Public Drinking & Public Urination!
In 2005 I received a ticket for an open container at the intersection of Nassau and Manhattan avenues. It was St. Patrick’s Day. I had been carrying my 24 ounce Budweiser […]
“A Cleaner City… is a Mindset” Obtaining Street Trash Cans in North Brooklyn
This article made possible by a donation to the Writer’s Fund Raffle by Greenpoint Heights. While Greenpoint is known for having numerous waste-transfer stations, super-fund sites, toxic releases, the oil spill […]
An Epistle from ExxonMobil About How They Will Wreck the Sidewalk
ExxonMobil dropped off a letter today at the apartment, no stamp or name and addressed only to “Dear Neighbor” in a tipped haphazard typewriter’s letters. This intimacy is creepy from […]
Brooklyn College, City Council, Academic Freedom, and BDS Movement Against Isreal
Brooklyn College has been the center of controversy the last few days, and Greenpoint’s City Council Member Stephen Levin has been involved in at least two sides of the many-sided […]
Charter Schools and WAGPOPS! (Interview)
This article brought to you by a donation to our Writer’s Fund from Five Leaves. Williamsburg and Greenpoint Parents Our Public Schools! or WAGPOPS! is an organization formed in 2011 by parents […]
Church of the Ascension Occupied for Sandy
Church of the Ascension on Java Street has been Occupied. The church, which began helping coordinate relief efforts (with Councilmember Steve Levin) for Hurricane Sandy survivors immediately after the storm, […]
Greenpoint Responds to Hurricane Sandy
The Greenpoint Reformed Church‘s volunteers prepared more than 1,000 bag lunches over the weekend, on top of thousands of meals prepared by the Church’s volunteers throughout the week as a relief […]
Mural of a Whistleblower: BAMN
In the summer of 2011, a large mural of Bradley Manning appeared near McCarren Park. Straddled between Williamsburg and Greenpoint, the image had “Hero” written above the smiling face of […]