The Greenpoint Monitor Museum received a grant three years ago from the GCEF to build a museum honoring the USS Monitor on the shores of developing Bushwick Inlet, where the great ship […]
Category: Historical Greenpoint
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Bask in the History of Greenpoint’s Basque Club
Greenpoint is well known for its Polish herritage, but New York’s Basque community also calls Greenpoint home. Since 1973, Euzko-Etxea, the Basque Club of New York, has maintained its headquarters […]
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Tom Gilbert, Greenpoint’s Prolific Baseball Historian
It is richly ironic that Tom Gilbert’s home on North Henry Street lies in what was once the outfield of the Manor House, where Greenpoint’s legendary national championship team, the […]
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Historic Union Baptist Church Reopens its Doors This Weekend (5/6)
The beautiful and landmarked Union Baptist Church (151 Noble Street) has been through a lot in its 170-year history. Having been shuttered by the city, faced demolition and surviving a leadership change and […]
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Williamsburg’s Cocaine Bar of the 90’s, Kokies is Back—and it’s Fitting
Depending how long you’ve lived in North BK, you may have heard tale of the legendary bar Kokie’s.
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NYC’s Famed Gourmet Food Purveyor Balducci’s Began with a Pushcart in Greenpoint
Last week Andrew Balducci, the man who built Balducci’s into the premier produce store in the city, died at ninety-two years of age. Balducci achieved his fame and fortune in […]
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Gangs of New York: North Brooklyn Edition
Martin Scorsese acquired the rights to Gangs of New York, Herbert Ashbery’s 1927 history of Gotham’s urban underworld, in 1979. The movie focuses on the murderous mayhem of mid-19th century […]
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North Brooklyn Then & Now: _missing_the_point_’s Amazing Instagram Account
There’s no doubt that North Brooklyn’s skyline has rapidly changed in the last decade plus. In place of one-story bombed out warehouses, high rises stand tall. An old sludge tank […]
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The Great Blizzard of 1888 in Greenpoint
Monday, March 12th marks the hundred and thirtieth anniversary of the greatest storm ever to hit Greenpoint: The Great Blizzard of 1888. Snowfalls of 20–60 inches fell locally, and sustained […]
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Before L-pocalypse: A History of Transit in North BK
As the MTA’s planned 15-month suspension of L train service between Brooklyn and Manhattan draws near, all 200,000 daily riders of the L-pocalypse have been asking the same question: how […]