A Greenpoint business owner has been named NY1’s ‘New Yorker of the Week.’ Gustavo ‘Goose’ Montenegro caught the attention of NY1 after offering free haircuts at his business, Headrush Barbershop […]
Category: Culture
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Historic Documents Highlight Local History of Slavery
It’s February and Black History Month has started, a time when we recall the huge African-American contribution to our country. Ask many educated New Yorkers and you may find that […]
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US Premiere of “Bleach” Follows Lonely Bushwick Rentboy
Check your coat at the door, and maybe your comfort. But what else would you expect going to see an immersive play about a gay sex worker in a Bushwick […]
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Goodyoga Relocating 500 Feet to New Greenpoint Studio
Goodyoga announced that it will be closed Friday night and are going to reopen Saturday at their new space at 37 Greenpoint Ave #106, a mere 500 feet away from their […]
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Thursday Spotlight: Meet The Artist Behind That Winning G Train Doodle
We’ve all rushed for the G train, but few have captured its whimsy and hysteria as winningly as local artist Nadeesha Godamunne. (Mokshini, the mononym you may know her by, […]
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Super Bowl Events in Greenpoint and Williamsburg
For native New Yorkers, this might be (another) hard Super Bowl to endure as the Patriots are (once again) competing. But if you want to watch Maroon 5 perform while […]
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Valentines Wastewater Treatment Tour Registration Opens Thursday (1/31)
Registration opens tomorrow Thursday, Jan. 31 at 12 p.m., for the annual Valentines Day tour of the futuristic digester eggs at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.  The tour will be […]
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157th Anniversary of USS Monitors’ Greenpoint Launch
Today marks the 157 year anniversary of Jan 30th, 1862, the day Greenpoint staked its claim in history as the site where the ironclad USS Monitor was built and […]
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Pinball, Figure Drawing, Q-Tip Disco, and Super Bowl — What’s Happening, Greenpoint? (1/30 – 2/5)
WEDNESDAY 1/30 ♦ Wave, Particle, Duplex by Studio SWINE. @ A/D/O (29 Norman Ave.), 10am, FREE, More Info * Pinball with Park Church Co-op @ Sunshine Laundromat (860 Manhattan Ave.), 6pm, FREE, […]
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New Artists Revive Greenpoint’s First Industry
Long before Greenpoint had the shipbuilding, oil refining or sugar refining industries, ceramicists had established Greenpoint as America’s first ceramic capital and it is more than a little ironic […]