A good samaritan working on Java Street wrote in to let us know she has found the “friendliest lost cat”who is looking to get back home. According to the vet, […]
Posts by Author Archives: Kim M
Kim is a native New Yorker, local activist and writer. When she's not writing books or playing Erin Brockovich with her Save Greenpoint peeps, you will see her whipping around Greenpoint on her bike, chatting it up with folks, and sharing stories about what it is about her hometown that makes life worth living.
Follow her on twitter @kimasson or www.kimmassonwrites.com
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Gay Pride Festival Coming to Williamsburg!
If the landslide victory in Ireland is any indication the movement for gay rights is finally getting the respect it deserves, North Brooklyn will continue to carry that torch this […]
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Adios BK Night Bazaar. Willkommen BMW.
Well, well, the tide of gentrification is officially churning over in our little pocket of Brooklyn. Less than two years after its launch, our very own fun house The Brooklyn Night […]
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Block Party this Saturday! Save Bushwick Inlet Park Before CitiStorage is Sold to Developers!
Ok Greenpointers, we really need to step up our game. In the months since CitiStorage mysteriously went up in flames,we were warned that our promised 28 acre park was in […]
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Word on the Curb: Cowboy in Williamsburg & $16,000 Uber bill?!
Well Greenpoint, strange things are happening in the world of transportation these days. Whether you are hoofing it on NAG’s Industrial History walking tour this Saturday, or simply looking for […]
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BRC Homeless Shelter will NOT be getting 16 new Sex Offenders
Yesterday morning I received an email with the words WATCH OUT in big bold letters. Sitting in my inbox, like a sack of rotting onions, was a link to […]
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Sculpture lost on India Street. Anyone take it?
Attention dumpster divers, sidewalk scavengers, and lovers of cool rusted metal objects! Anyone see this sculpture? It was accidentally thrown out over the weekend and its owners desperately want […]
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Where’s our park? In the hands of another developer if CitiStorage owner has his way.
Last month Greenpoint and Williamsburg neighbors broke out of North Brooklyn and headed down to City Hall to fight for Bushwick Inlet Park. We joined hands, sang songs, screamed our […]
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Who wants to spend $1 million dollars?
Tax season has come and gone, and hopefully by now, your nasty W2’s and 1099’s have been neatly filed away until next year. While you are sitting pretty, dreaming […]
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Another one bites the dust. 30 yr old Woodworking co-op priced out of Greenpoint
In the fast-paced shell game of who is making money off of Greenpoint’s real estate scene, carpenters are getting no love these days. The Brooklyn Woodworkers Co-op–a Greenpoint carpenter collective– […]