Editors’ Note: This is our second post in a series about solo dining. Here’s our first post. Perhaps the most obvious spot that comes to mind when one thinks of restaurants most suitable to […]
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Top 10 Summer Reads About Greenpoint
Want some Summer reading about our neighborhood? Here’s a list of books related to Greenpoint. People ask me how I researched my account of local history Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past. The […]
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Simuvac Projects: A Greenpoint Gallery With A Strong Point of View
Many New York art gallerists launch eponymous establishments, but Joseph A. Gross, owner of Simuvac Projects (99 Norman Avenue) in Greenpoint, named his venture with a nod to Don Delillo’s White Noise. A […]
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Dining and Drinking With Your Dog In North Brooklyn
Surely all of you dog owners out there are familiar with this conundrum: you were away from your four-legged friend all day and he is SO excited to see you. […]
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A History of Greenpoint in 25 Buildings: The Huron Street Public Bath
It’s hard to imagine today, but in 1903 when the Huron Street Bath was opened to the public the vast majority of Greenpoint tenement apartments did not have showers or […]
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Behind the Bar: From Bordeaux to Brooklyn, The Tale of Milk and Roses’ Resident Ace, Gypsy Carpenter, and Lifelong Adventurer Simon Fouchard
If you’ve ever cozied up to the beautiful bar at northern Greenpoint’s Milk and Roses (1110 Manhattan Avenue), you may have met a particularly charismatic French bartender named Simon. If you […]
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Go Camping in Bushwick Inlet Park This Saturday Night!
When was the last time you ever camped out on New York park land? This Saturday July 9th at 7pm, join Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, Open Space Alliance […]
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Lindsay Mack: Tarot Therapist
There’s a strong metaphysical movement in North Brooklyn—we’ve got a holistic apothecary, a growing number of spiritual shops carrying crystals, more conventional retail establishments who stock mystical items, and access to classes that tap into […]
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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 […]