An ongoing gas leak on Moultrie Street isn’t just a literal and figurative headache to neighbors. It’s also raising concerns over the prospect of worse complications, including the ghost of […]
Posts by Author Archives: Steph Koyfman
Steph divides her time between writing about stuff happening in 2015 and dancing to jazz-era music. She calls the swanky Newtown Creek waterfront home. Follow her on Twitter: @stephkoyfman
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We’re Thankful for this Pizza-Themed Space Invader at Vinnie’s
Judging by the consistent theme of pizza and Ninja Turtles in his work lately, legendary street artist Invader is hungry for freedom slices. We’re happy to say that Greenpoint’s very […]
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This Greenpoint Barber Defies His Tourette’s in the Name of Great Hair
If there were ever a place to trust a twitchy man with a straight razor, it would be at the workstation of Tomcats Barbershop savant David Arce. Arce has Tourette’s […]
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From Vaudeville to Oil Slicks to Premium Condos — The Hook-Up 11/20
Though Greenpoint’s industrial history gets dredged up on the regular, it’s less often that we talk about its former status as a thriving hub of theatre and vaudeville. Today, the […]
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The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund in Action (More Action)
Last week, we bore witness to the first visible evidence of a benevolent tree invasion overtaking our neighborhood. That, if you recall, is one of several projects brought to us […]
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A Tree Grows in Greenpoint, and We’re About to Get 499 More
Last Friday, Greenpoint took a small step in the direction of better living up to its name. With one tree planted out of a proposed 500, the “Greening Greenpoint” project […]
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The Horsemen of Gentrification Could at Least Bring Some Trash Cans with Them — The Hook-Up 11/6
Is “Greenpoint” becoming synonymous with “gentrification?” This week, Forbes spotlighted the decline of Polish businesses, and McSweeney’s did a McSweeney’s. Curb Your Litter is tackling Greenpoint’s abysmal person-to-garbage-can ratio with […]
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How Did a Massive Halloween Rave Almost Go Down in One of Greenpoint’s Most Dangerous Buildings?
By now, most of you are familiar with the story of the Cityfox rave that never was. To sum it up briefly, a club promoter sold thousands of tickets to […]
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Meet Greenpoint’s Drug Lords, Then Look Wistfully At the Changing Waterfront — The Hook-Up 10/30
Greenpoint might not need a Breaking Bad cafe after all. Turns out a local mom-and-pop pharmacy was host to “one of the biggest illegal prescription pill rings in New York […]
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What’s New in the World of Bushwick Inlet Park?
As far as broken dreams and empty promises go, things have been pretty quiet around this site since Occupy the Inlet got busy with demonstrations in August. Open space activists […]