Greening Greenpoint is hosting a tree care workshop for trees on Box St. and Clay Street, meeting at 1133 Manhattan Avenue on Saturday November 12, 9am-11am. “Greening Greenpoint will supply […]
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Greenpoint Gets Greener at Kingsland Wildflowers
North Brooklyn community residents came out to 520 Kingsland Ave. for the first annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon in Greenpoint this past weekend. The event marked the […]
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Construction to Begin on New Greenpoint Library Later this Year
Those of you who have ever laid eyes on the public library in Greenpoint know that it is a bit of an eyesore in an otherwise picturesque neighborhood. But not for […]
Posted inNews, The Hook-Up
Merry Christmas, Greenpoint — The Hook-Up 12/25
You’ve seen the gingerbread house on Humboldt Street — now meet the man behind the candy cane trim. It may be too late to look, but it’s not too late […]
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The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund in Action (More Action)
Last week, we bore witness to the first visible evidence of a benevolent tree invasion overtaking our neighborhood. That, if you recall, is one of several projects brought to us […]
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A Tree Grows in Greenpoint, and We’re About to Get 499 More
Last Friday, Greenpoint took a small step in the direction of better living up to its name. With one tree planted out of a proposed 500, the “Greening Greenpoint” project […]
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Curb Your Litter Hits Greenpoint Streets
We’ve been talking a lot about trash these days. Whether it’s about the pilot composting program or the new Big Belly Solar Bins hitting the streets, garbage is a serious […]
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Celebrating the Future Environmental Stewards of Greenpoint
What was there to celebrate on a freezing cold evening in the heart of winter in Greenpoint? The kickoff of the Greenpoint Eco Schools program, which was recently awarded funding […]
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Vote on how Greenpoint gets greener!
Alright Greenpointers, the time has come. Tomorrow and Saturday we get to vote on how the next installment of the $19 million Exxon-Mobil settlement funds gets spent. As […]
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New Proposal Wants to Map Greenpoint’s Toxic Sites
One of the first things I learned after moving to Greenpoint in 2011 was that The Mark Bar gives out free bagels on Sundays. Or at least they used to. […]