Whenever I see folks pointing and looking up into a tree, I have to stop and find out what’s up. At McCarren it’s usually one of the Red Tailed Hawks […]
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Kickstarter Furthers Brooklyn’s Tech Boom!
Fellow Greenpointer Nathaniel Ziering tipped me off that Kickstarter is moving their headquarters from Manhattan to Greenpoint! The fast growing company provides crowd-sourced funding for creative projects, many of which […]
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Canoeing: The Creek to Bushwick Inlet
Last Saturday was a day on which my body cried out for the waterfront. The weather turned the simplest tasks into moist ordeals, so after my second mechanical failure of […]
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Lemonade Love
Lemonade stands are good for kids. So is viral marketing. With already a keen understanding of the value of social media, Nat asked “are we going to be on Facebook?” […]
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The Garden Spot, Week 19
Goodbye tomatoes. Goodbye summer squashes. Goodbye radishes. Like any proper New Yorker, I am going to be away for the next six weekends of the summer. This is the hardest […]
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5 Boros Basketball Seeks Sponsors
Local Youth Basketball League Seeks Sponsors 5 Boros Basketball, a youth basketball team based in Greenpoint, is currently seeking one or more local businesses to serve as sponsors. 5 Boros […]
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PIMP YOUR TREE BED
MillionTreesNYC is giving away a gift card to home depot and an official NYC Parks tree bed plaque to the tree steward who pimps out their tree bed. It is […]
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NB Boat Club’s Spanking New Dock
North Brooklyn Boat Club has come a long way since the first meeting last Fall and the last time we spoke to board member Jens. They have a brand spanking […]
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The Garden Spot, Week 18
I was looking forward to yesterday’s storm, as my plants (and I), needed a little reprieve from the heat. It started rolling into Greenpoint around 3pm, and I moved some […]
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More Nassau Ave Insanity – New Traffic Pattern
Via Greenpoint Gazette, traffic on Nassau will be running eastbound beginning Monday July 23rd. If my brain compass is working that means the opposite direction of how it is running […]