On Wednesday’s crisp afternoon, a crowd that estimated itself at somewhere between 65 and 100 gathered to renew the call to action to prevent two (literally) looming developments from progressing […]
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Battery Harris and the DOT: A Love Story
When opening a new bar, coming away with a positive experience from a community board meeting presided over by a group hawkishly vigilant of both new liquor licenses and rapidly-vanishing […]
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Community Meeting Notes: Greenpoint Landing & 77 Commercial St
“We’re creating a neighborhood on the waterfront.” These were the poorly-chosen words of Melanie Meyers, a representative for the Greenpoint Landing development. She appeared alongside representatives of the development at […]
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Spring Greenpoint CSA Roundup!
Every weekend many of us hit the farmers market circuit, navigating between Union Square Park, Union St, and Russell St in an effort to avoid the wilted offerings found at […]
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North Brooklyn Boat Club Holds First Member’s Meeting of 2013
This article made possible by a donation to our Writer’s Fund from local reader donations! Things are looking up for the North Brooklyn Boat Club. Â Even a hurricane couldn’t wipe […]
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Meet the Designers: Williamsburg Fashion Weekend
This article made possible by a donation to our Writer’s FundRaffle by Selamat Pagi. There are few better signs that you picked the right thing to wear to an event […]
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Help Us Map Greenpoint!
This article brought to you by a donation to the Writer’s Fund by Paulie Gee’s. Neighborhoods are notoriously tricky things to pin down, especially in New York. While we all […]
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Counting Our Homeless – An Annual Controversy
Each year, in the dead of winter, the Department of Homeless Services sends volunteers – as many as 2,000- to less-than-scenic neighborhoods around the city to do a hand-count of […]
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World’s ‘Rarest Beer’ at Brouwerij Lane
A few years ago, a beer store quietly nestled into the space between the old Coco 66/68 and the corner delis.  Ever since, Brouwerij Lane has managed to bring to the neighborhood […]
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The First Thanksgiving – in Greenpoint
For those of us who move to New York to start our adult lives, it’s a great moment when we find ourselves in a living situation stable enough to invite […]