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Posted inUncategorized, Wellness

Greenpoint’s General Store For The Spirit: Help Your Self

by Megan PenmannMay 12, 2016May 14, 2016

Two years ago Catherine Foley had a sudden vision in the middle of an acupuncture session: to open a “general store for the spirit” and call it Help Your Self. […]

Posted inCommunity, News

From Vaudeville to Oil Slicks to Premium Condos — The Hook-Up 11/20

by Steph KoyfmanNovember 20, 2015

Though Greenpoint’s industrial history gets dredged up on the regular, it’s less often that we talk about its former status as a thriving hub of theatre and vaudeville. Today, the […]

Posted inCommunity, News

How Did a Massive Halloween Rave Almost Go Down in One of Greenpoint’s Most Dangerous Buildings?

by Steph KoyfmanNovember 4, 2015November 5, 2015

By now, most of you are familiar with the story of the Cityfox rave that never was. To sum it up briefly, a club promoter sold thousands of tickets to […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint, Community, Historical Greenpoint

Hey North Brooklyn, Here’s Our Toxins Mapped

by Aaron SimonOctober 26, 2015October 26, 2015

To shine a light on Brooklyn’s murky legacy of contamination, the Neighbors Allied For Good Growth (NAG) and Pratt’s Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative (
SAVI) released a beta version of a ToxiCity […]

Posted inCommunity, News

Tomorrow (10/20), ToxiCity Map Reveals Greenpoint & Williamsburg’s Contamination Trail

by Aaron SimonOctober 19, 2015October 19, 2015

Did you know that North Brooklyn’s industrial legacy left behind an alphabet soup of toxins – TCE, PCBs, phthalates, benzene, and many other chemicals – that’s lingering beneath the surface in many sections […]

Posted inCommunity, News

Want Green Space? Occupy the Inlet this Sunday!

by Kim MAugust 5, 2015August 5, 2015

Got your kayaks and kites ready? If you don’t, better hurry up! This Sunday, the Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park are about to make history and they want you in […]

Posted inCommunity, News

BRC Homeless Shelter will NOT be getting 16 new Sex Offenders

by Kim MApril 24, 2015April 25, 2015

  Yesterday morning I received an email with the words WATCH OUT in big bold letters. Sitting in my inbox, like a sack of rotting onions, was a link to […]

Posted inCommunity, News, Uncategorized

Newtown Barge Park is about to get a makeover and needs our help!

by Kim MJanuary 6, 2015January 7, 2015

Parks. Everybody loves them. They are green, full of trees, and the perfect escape for people seeking refuge from NYC’s concrete jungle. But these days the word ‘park’ is unfortunately […]

Posted inCommunity, News

A Message to Greenpoint from Council Member Stephen Levin

by Jen GDecember 24, 2013

A week or so ago we published an article titled The Conspiracy Against The People Opposed To Greenpoint Landing, after the painful and last public meeting about the high rise towers inevitably […]

Posted inCommunity, News

The Conspiracy Against The People Opposed to Greenpoint Landing

by AveryDecember 13, 2013December 16, 2013

I hate the term conspiracy theory. It irks me. Often valid ideas get this moniker, as well as ideas that clearly deserve the term. That said, if Joe Blow murders […]

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