This vintage Easter Bunny decoration with his nest? filled with plastic eggs adorns a window on Driggs Ave. Have a sweet day!
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The GreenPoint PickUp – Tinder
My thoughts about online dating have been… negative, to say the least. When some of my friends have suggested it, I think I looked at them as though they had […]
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It Ain’t Girls: The Greenpoint Hotel
With the proposed ten luxury high rises coming to Greenpoint, adding over 5000 new homes to the area, nearby residents of The Greenpoint Hotel currently live in deplorable conditions. With […]
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Learn Something: Book of Advice Edited by Greenpoint Filmmaker
This post made possible by an anonymous donation to our Writer’s Fund from Greenpoint Area Man. Greenpoint based filmmaker Jessica Edwards knows that she can learn a lot from her […]
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FREE English Classes in Williamsburg & Greenpoint Start 3/16 & 3/18
Recently a writer doing research on a book about Greenpoint interviewed me about life in Greenpoint and the Polish community came up. I explained how unique NYC is in that […]
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Fracking Moratorium For Two Years: Praise The Lord…
…or praise people with common sense who care more about the safety and well being of citizens and our environment than making gas companies richer. As announced on Joe Lentol’s […]
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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 […]
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Public Walk-Thru at Greenpoint Hotel After Tenants File Action For Deplorable Conditions – Tomorrow 3/6
The “Greenpoint Hotel” slumlord is about to get his ass handed to him by 30 of his tenants. Greg Hanlon at St. Nick’s Alliance emailed that tomorrow Wednesday March 6, […]
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“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 […]
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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 […]