What qualifies art is hard to pin down, but just as slippery is qualifying what houses the art. Galleries take many shapes and forms, and Northern Brooklyn is heavily peppered with such […]
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Sign This Petition to Move the Farmers Market Back to the Middle of McGolrick
Strolling the McGolrick (Winthrop) Park farmers market is a Sunday tradition for many Greenpointers, and now that a section of the middle of the park is taken over by playground construction, […]
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The Bushwick Starr’s “Singlet” Tests the Limits of Intimacy
Consider yourself blessed, Brooklyn: the downtown and all’s-fair-in-love-and-cabaret artist Erin Markey is performing within walking distance from the L Train. Markey, whose preferred gender pronoun is they, has written — […]
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Dentists, Graphic Designers, Lighting Interns: Greenpoint Gigs – Week of 5/22
A fresh batch of open jobs.
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Photography Show Opening This Thursday (5/24) at Brooklyn Grain
This Thursday May 24th from 6pm-9pm, photo studio Brooklyn Grain (1166 Manhattan Avenue) is hosting a show of work by New York film shooters. This is the second in a […]
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Paddle Newtown Creek, Enjoy a Waterfront Fire Pit + More: The North Brooklyn Boat Club’s Opening Bash is This Saturday!
The North Brooklyn Boat Club is truly a diamond in the rough of the polluted Newtown Creek waterway, bringing folks in our community together not only for boating and paddling […]
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Bushwick Inlet Popup Park Opening This Weekend! (5/26)
This Saturday May 26th, we’ll officially get a new 1.8 acre popup park at 50 Kent Avenue between North 11th & North 12th Streets! The park, which is a temporary […]
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Off the Grid, On the Bridge and Out of the Chamber — The Hook-up (5/18)
Happy Friday, Greenpoint! For some of our neighbors, this has been a tough week. On Sunday, 500 Greenpoint residents lost their heat and hot water when National Grid cut service […]
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Beautiful and Historical Mechanics & Traders Bank Has Hit the Market
As far as stunning neighborhood icons with a deep hometown pedigree go, the Mechanics and Traders Bank of Greenpoint, at 144 Franklin Street, is hard to beat, and the entire […]
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Thursday Spotlight: Steve Wasterval and How an Evolving Greenpoint Affects His Paintings
Steve Wasterval isn’t from here, but you may be led to believe otherwise given the authenticity and love behind each of his New York paintings. In a culture where the definition […]