A thoughtful reader emailed: “I found someone’s artwork rolled up in brown paper at the Lorimer G platform heading towards Greenpoint last week … The prints inside say let’s make […]
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Great Backyard Bird Count Is Back!
You can find dozens of different birds right here in Greenpoint if you look for them. And this week you can help area researchers by recording what you see. The Great […]
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Greenpoint Landing: Bloomberg’s Plan To Create A “New” Greenpoint Community
Miami, Brooklyn is coming to Greenpoint. And it aint’ perty. Did you know we are lacking in community here? In his recent State of The City 2013 address, Mike Bloomberg […]
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The GreenPoint Pickup:A Success Story
I was running in Mccarren Park when all of a sudden a soccer ball flew out of nowhere slamming me in the head. I was knocked nearly unconscious… I thought […]
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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 […]
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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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Koch Calls Cuomo A Prick, GMO Labeling, Gowanus Clean-Up, Hasidic Boners, Sexercise’s Demise, Rotgut Ends: The Hook-Up (3/3)
• Submit Films To Northside Film Festival • Ed Koch’s Last Word Involves Calling Cuomo A Prick and saying “Giuliani was a very good mayor, but he was not a good […]
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Good Morning Cooper’s Hawk
A juvenile Cooper’s Hawk landed in our yard this morning. Lots of hawks land in our yard and we do our best to take a photo with our iphone through […]
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RIP Mayor Ed Koch
Ed Koch, a real New Yorker, and former mayor of our great city died overnight of heart failure, as reported by CNN. Rest in peace, Mayor Koch. You were badass.
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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 […]