The Greenpoint Monitor Museum will hold an open house this weekend to provide updates on the plan to build a museum in honor of the historic USS Monitor, the Civil […]
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157th Anniversary of USS Monitors’ Greenpoint Launch
Today marks the 157 year anniversary of Jan 30th, 1862, the day Greenpoint staked its claim in history as the site where the ironclad USS Monitor was built and […]
Ecology to Take Center Stage at Monitor Museum Site
The USS Monitor, built here in Greenpoint by Continental Ironworks in 1862, was one of the first iron-clad battle ships in the US Navy. During the Civil War, the Monitor […]
Greenpoint Monitor Museum Site Visit + Public Info Session (6/9 & 6/13)
The Greenpoint Monitor Museum received a grant three years ago from the GCEF to build a museum honoring the USS Monitor on the shores of developing Bushwick Inlet, where the great ship […]
Cutest Dog Contest (+ More From The GCEF) in McGolrick This Weekend! (10/14)
WHAT: OpenHouseGCEF! WHERE: McGolrick/Winthrop Park, Russell St. and Driggs Ave. WHEN: Saturday, October 14, 11am-3pm (NOTE: If heavy rain the 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. event will be cancelled!) If […]
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 […]