You know you love gospel music. Secretly. Or not so secretly! Aretha Franklin? Mahalia Jackson? America’s best music has come from the gospel tradition. Don’t you want to sing some […]
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Flora e Fauna: An Exhibition of Botanical Drawings by KT Smail Opening at Nights and Weekends 9/5
Flora e Fauna: An Exhibition of Botanical Drawings by KT Smail Opening at tomorrow Wednesday September 5, 2012, 6-9pm @ Nights & Weekends (1 Bedford Ave). Greenpointers had a chat […]
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Cardboard Tube Fighting Tournament at McCarren Park (VIDEO!)
Cardboard Tube Fighting League Tournament at McCarren Park. Video by Stephanie Kuo.
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GO (GREENPOINT!) BROOKLYN ART THIS WEEKEND (9/8-9/9)
This weekend check out Go Brooklyn, a Brooklyn wide artist open studios organized by Brooklyn Museum. The idea is, visitors “check-in” to each artist studio using a smart phone app. […]
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SUNDAY SNAPS: DELI CATS
Today’s Sunday Snaps features Instagram photos taken in or near a Greenpoint Deli in Brooklyn. Tag your photos #greenpointers! Do you recognize any of these delis? Or cat butts?
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Name That Point and Win a Beer!
Welcome to the second edition of Name That Point. Can you guess the location in Greenpoint where this street art photo is located? The first person to guess correctly wins a […]
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Newtown Creek Armada Fundraising Happy Hour Tonight 8/30!
“The Newtown Creek Armada is an art installation that invites the public to explore the past, present and future of a contaminated New York City waterway. The Newtown Creek, a […]
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10 Things To Do in Brooklyn On Your Labor Day Staycation
Staycationing on a holiday weekend is sheer bliss for crowd wary Brooklynites. Restaurants are empty. The streets are calm. No stress to get out of or back into the city. […]
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Inbound Marketing: Books Greenpointers Loves
Greenpointers.com is very excited to be an online affiliate of our favorite local bookstore WORD. I am a major blog and online marketing nerd and read a ton of books […]
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My Chemical Portrait at Heliopolis: Last Night Tonight 8/26
It was nothing like the cowboy-dress, sepia novelties of every town tourist traps. Having my collodian portrait taken at Heliopolis gallery by inherent photographer Eric Lee Bowman felt (and was) […]