Via, the newest ridesharing app to hit the streets of Brooklyn (tap here to download Via), is now offering rides from Greenpoint to local subway stops for just $1. This […]
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✨🛸VENDOR CALL! Gardens of the Galaxy Spring Market! (4/22)🛸✨
Hello Earth, it’s time to explore blossoming quasars, tune into pulsars, and join the constellation of inspiration known as Greenpointer’s Gardens of the Galaxy Spring Market on April 22nd. This […]
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Green Futures, and Greenpoint Residents, Alive and Well — The Hook-up (3/2)
This morning, students, teachers and local politicians and community members gathered to celebrate P.S. 34’s brand new Green STEM Lab and Hydroponic Garden. But it’s not just plant life that’s […]
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Help Catch The 7 Train Groper!
Cops are looking for a 60-year-old man who groped a Greenpoint woman on a Manhattan bound 7 Train early Wednesday morning. The man reached up the woman’s skirt in the […]
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Looking for Love on the G Train, Life and Death in Brooklyn — The Hook-up (2/23)
The Man in the Yellow Hat was always looking for Curious George. This Valentines Day, a 25-year-old Williamsburg woman was looking for the Guy in the Yellow Shoes. After a […]
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North Brooklyn Development Meeting—Flooding Edition This Thursday (3/1)
WHAT: North Brooklyn Development Meeting: Flooding Edition WHEN: Thursday, March 1st | 6:30-8:30pm WHERE: 176 Java Street More info
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The Sea Train: Will Ferries Mean Smooth Sailing Through L-Pocalypse?
The MTA has seen protests in Brooklyn due to its laissez-faire relationship with the impending L-pocalypse. In response, they’ve promised to make community engagement a “central priority” as the March […]
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New DEP Garbage Grabbers are cleaning Newtown Creek
Here at Greenpointers, we love getting down and dirty with the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. On Tuesday, that complex kicked it up a notch further when the Department of […]
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Following the Flush: What we Learned on the Newtown Creek Digester Egg Tour
The NYC Department of Environmental Protection is in Love! The municipal organization hosted a Valentines Day tour of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant on Saturday, and the complex’s iconic […]
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Pigeons and Protests: The Battle for Tenants Rights at 79 Lorimer Street
At a press conference today in front of 79 Lorimer Street, a multiple-dwelling loft building in South Williamsburg, Councilman Stephen Levin Called the situation “truly Kafkaesque”: three and a half […]