Greenpoint’s only outdoor/online radio station, The Lot Radio, is hosting a series of events with their neighbors the San Damiano Mission. Join them this Saturday evening for a special performance of […]
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McCarren Park Pool Now Open Through Labor Day
The McCarren Park pool, which has only been up and running as a functional pool since 2012, is back in business for the summer 2016 season. The pool was originally […]
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You Gotta See It Once! The Amazing Giglio Feast!
If you have lived in North Brooklyn for any amount of time and have never seen the Giglio—you don’t know what you are missing. This celebration of Italian culture is […]
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A History of Greenpoint in 25 Buildings – P.S. 34
P.S 34, also known as the Oliver Hazard Perry School, is more than an elegant old red brick school building on the corner of Norman Avenue and McGuinness Boulevard. Built […]
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A History of Greenpoint in 25 Buildings: The Leviton Building
The company is long gone, but the building remains. The Leviton Building just off McGuinnness Boulevard on Greenpoint Avenue has an interesting history. The Leviton Company was founded in 1906 by […]
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A History of Greenpoint in 25 Buildings #6: The Havemeyer Sugar Refinery
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, North Brooklyn was the largest place for refining sugar in the world and Brooklyn’s largest industry. Although Williamsburg refined far more sugar […]
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A History of Greenpoint in Twenty-Five Buildings #5: The American Manufacturing Company
For decades the remains of the American Manufacturing Company buildings around West and Noble have stood, hulking and vacant, as a reminder of Greenpoint’s industrial past. Now all that is […]
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Goodbye, Old Neighborhood Store. Hello, Increased Population Density!
For generations, J. Joseph & Sons was a local business that occupied the entire block on Manhattan Avenue between Eagle and Freeman Streets. Three generations ago, when Greenpointers could only […]
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Greenpoint’s WWII Prisoner of War Camp and a Forbidden Love
One of the things I did while researching my local history book Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past was talking to as many Greenpoint seniors as I could. They have repeatedly told me a […]
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A History of Greenpoint in 25 Buildings: Greenpoint’s Haunted House?
If I had to pick one house in Greenpoint to set a horror movie in it would be the big old house set back off the street at the corner […]