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Transmitter Park: How Greenpoint’s Waterfront Oasis Finally Appeared

by Geoff CobbJanuary 23, 2019January 23, 2019

When Transmitter Park finally opened in 2012, many longtime Greenpoint residents were shocked to realize that for decades they had been denied amazing views of the East River. They wondered […]

Posted inCulture

North Brooklyn Is Home to One of America’s Oldest Mosques

by Geoff CobbJanuary 18, 2019January 18, 2019

I had often walked by the inconspicuous former church at 104 Powers St. near the border of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, yet I never noticed the sole sign that this was […]

Posted inHistorical Greenpoint

Charles Evans Hughes: Greenpoint’s Forgotten Statesman

by Geoff CobbJanuary 17, 2019January 17, 2019

He did not look like a Greenpointer, he did not act like one either and with his eloquent vocabulary and upper-class speech he sure did not sound like one, nevertheless, […]

Posted inHistorical Greenpoint

Glass Blowing and Greenpoint, a Continued Tradition

by Geoff CobbJanuary 16, 2019January 16, 2019

Echo Glass Works at 253 Greenpoint Ave. offers a dazzling variety of one-of-a-kind custom glass jewelry, kiln cast glass, along with blown glass vessels that simply stun. However, this is […]

Posted inCulture

1940s Greenpoint: Franklin Street

by Aaron SimonJanuary 16, 2019January 16, 2019

A few months ago the city released its 1940s tax photo archive of over 700,000 black and white pictures and it’s a wonderful way for history nerds to waste hours dreaming of the Greenpoint […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

Ben Shahn: Williamsburg’s Greatest Artist Ever?

by Geoff CobbJanuary 14, 2019January 14, 2019

Ben Shahn’s name today is obscure, but Shahn was perhaps one of the greatest artists ever to come out of Williamsburg. Born in Lithuania, Shahn grew up in the Southside […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

The Neglected Abstract Masterpieces of the Williamsburg Houses

by Geoff CobbDecember 27, 2018December 27, 2018

  For years brilliant avant-guarde murals lay hidden inside a local housing project, but thanks to an intrepid art history detective they were rediscovered and everyone today can enjoy their […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

The Abandoned Subway Tunnel Teasing Williamsburg

by Geoff CobbDecember 26, 2018December 26, 2018

Imagine how much easier it would be for alternative transportation with the L train apocalypse if there was a parallel subway line from Williamsburg providing another route to Manhattan! In […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

Woordworking Is Greenpoint’s Oldest Craft

by Geoff CobbDecember 14, 2018December 18, 2018

The first Greenpointer was a woodworker: Norwegian immigrant, ship’s carpenter and master carpenter of the City of New Amsterdam, Dirck Volckertszen, built the first house here Near Franklin and Calyer […]

Posted inCulture

The Greenpointer Who Became a Taxidermy Legend

by Geoff CobbDecember 12, 2018December 12, 2018

  Greenpoint does not seem like a very likely place to have a tradition of taxidermy, but this is an area that is always full of surprises and it turns […]

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