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Oil, Philanthropy, The Astral and Art: The Mixed Local Legacy of Charles Pratt

by Geoff Cobb February 16, 2018February 14, 2018

Perhaps there is no person in the long history of Greenpoint who had a bigger effect on our area than Charles Pratt. Pratt’s legacy, though is a mixed one: a […]

A History of Greenpoint in 25 Buildings: The Astral Apartments

by Geoff Cobb December 19, 2016December 15, 2016

Charles Pratt was the richest man in Brooklyn in the 1880s, but his conscience was bothering him. The founder of Astral Oil Works, the first modern oil refinery in the […]

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